What Does Jude 1:14 Mean?
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, "Look, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his set-apart ones."
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King James wording
King James Version
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,THE KEY
The Lord does not appear into emptiness: “saints” names the vast company set apart as his.
THE MEANING
The verse holds you before the Lord’s coming with a multitude beyond ordinary counting, gathered as those set apart to him. His appearing is communal, not solitary. The scene speaks now of a belonging that reaches beyond what you can see around you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The Lord’s appearing is not solitary, and belonging to him is not pictured as an isolated status.
THE ROOT
ἁγίοις
hagiois
GROWS FROM
ἁγ- (hag-; ἅγιος, hagios)
Set apart; belonging to what is set apart.
“set-apart ones” in this verse is hagiois. The Greek word carries the sense of being set apart, and its word family includes both the act of setting apart and the resulting state. The multitude is described by this shared belonging to the Lord.
ALSO GROWS
hagiazō: Set apart, consecrate.
ἁγιάζω
The related verb makes the setting-apart in “saints” an action as well as an identity.
hagiasmos: Setting apart, consecration.
ἁγιασμός
This noun names the state or process carried in the description of the Lord’s company.
μυριάσιν
myriasin
GROWS FROM
μυρι- (myri-; μυριάς, myrias)
A myriad, ten thousand; by extension, an immense multitude.
“ten thousands” in this verse is myriasin. The Greek word holds the concrete scale of ten thousand and can also name a number beyond ordinary counting. The phrase makes the Lord’s coming vast in company, not merely vast in power.
ALSO GROWS
myrias: A myriad; ten thousand or a vast number.
μυριάς
This noun is the source of the scale expressed by “ten thousands.”
myrioi: Ten thousand; countless or immense.
μύριοι
This related form shows how the word family moves from a number to the sense of overwhelming multitude.
חֲנוֹךְ
Ḥănōḵ
GROWS FROM
חנך
ḥ-n-k
Initiate, dedicate, inaugurate.
Enoch’s Hebrew name carries the sense of one dedicated or initiated. The verse places that name beside a multitude called set apart: the witness and the company converge on belonging, though their words come from different roots.
ALSO GROWS
ḥănîḵāw: His trained or initiated men (Genesis 14:14).
חֲנִיכָיו
This form shows the root describing people prepared for a role, echoing Enoch as a witness who speaks.
ḥănukkāh: Dedication, inauguration.
חֲנֻכָּה
This branch makes the root’s sense of being dedicated explicit.
THE PATTERN
Scripture portrays the Lord’s appearing with a vast company gathered around him.
And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and dawned from Seir upon them; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of the set-apart ones; from his right hand went a fire of instruction for them.When the Son of Man comes in his weight, and all the set-apart messengers with him, then he sits on the throne of his weight.And I see, and I hear the voice of many messengers around the throne, and the living creatures, and the older ones, and their number is ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,THE THREAD
So that he may steady your hearts, unblemished in set-apartness before the face of God, even our Father, at the arrival of our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, with all his set-apart ones.The same Greek word family behind “saints” appears in “all his saints” at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jude’s myriads are echoed as a community gathered with him at his appearing.
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