What Does 1 Corinthians 10:26 Mean in the King James?

For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.

1 Corinthians 10:26 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

“The fulness” means everything that fills the earth, so nothing in creation sits outside the Lord’s claim.

THE MEANING

The earth around you and everything that fills it belong to the Lord. Even what reaches the table is within that claim, part of a world held by him.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

This undoes the belief that the created world is divided between what belongs to the Lord and what does not.

THE ROOT

πλήρωμα

plērōma

GROWS FROM

πληρ-

plēr-

Fill; make full.

“fulness” in this verse is plērōma. ⁨πλήρωμα⁩ names what fills the earth, not an abstract abundance apart from it. Its word family holds the act of filling and the state of being full together, gathering the earth’s contents into the same claim: the Lord’s.

ALSO GROWS

plēroō: To fill; to make full.

πληρόω

The verb keeps the action of filling beside the “fulness” that names what fills the earth.

plērēs: Full; filled.

πλήρης

This branch describes the state of being full, linking the earth’s contents to the same root as its fullness.

THE PATTERN

The Creator’s claim includes the world’s abundance, which arrives as provision to be received with thanks.

Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Acts 14:17 · KJVRain, harvest, food, and gladness show the world’s fullness arriving as provision.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

1 Timothy 4:4 · KJVThe verse joins what God creates with the reader’s grateful receiving.

THE THREAD

A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Psalm 24:1 · KJV

The same claim appears here: the earth and everything that fills it belong to the Lord. The Hebrew ⁨מְלוֹאָהּ⁩ (melo’ah), “its fullness,” likewise gathers what fills the earth into one phrase.

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