What Does 1 Corinthians 11:11 Mean in the King James?
Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
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
In the Lord, neither man nor woman stands apart from the other; dependence runs both ways.
THE MEANING
You are met here as a person whose life is relational: in the Lord, neither man nor woman is imagined apart from the other. The verse gives that dependence in both directions, preserving distinction while refusing self-sufficiency.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie it undoes is that dependence runs only one way, that man can stand complete without woman, or woman without man. The sentence rejects both directions.
THE ROOT
χωρίς
chōris
GROWS FROM
χωρ-
chōr-
Apart, separated; the word carries a sense of being in a space apart.
The same word appears twice in the Greek, placing the two halves in exact reciprocity: neither woman apart from man, nor man apart from woman. “Without” here carries the sense of apartness, and the verse denies that either can stand apart in the Lord.
ALSO GROWS
chōrizō: To separate, divide, or put apart.
χωρίζω
This verb makes the word’s sense of separation concrete: chōris names the apartness that the verse denies in both directions.
chōra: Space, region, or country.
χώρα
Its spatial sense helps make chōris concrete as being apart; in the Lord, neither person occupies a separate, self-sufficient place.
THE PATTERN
Life in relation is reciprocal: distinction remains, but each depends on another.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.THE THREAD
For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.The next verse gives both directions: woman is of man, and man is by woman; then it gathers both into God. The reciprocity in verse 11 sits inside a wider claim of shared dependence.
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