What Does 1 Corinthians 14:21 Mean in the King James?
In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith 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
A foreign voice can become the sign of a deeper deafness: speech arrives, yet the speaker is not received.
THE MEANING
The verse names the gap between sound reaching you and receiving what is said: speech in other tongues can be present while the speaker remains unheard. Its living edge is that language alone does not guarantee recognition; a voice can reach the ear while its meaning is refused.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that exposure to words or a sign automatically means receiving their meaning.
THE ROOT
εἰσακούσονται
eisakousontai
GROWS FROM
ἀκου-
akou-
Hear, listen, heed.
The verb is built on ἀκούω (akouō), “to hear or listen,” and its force here is to listen to or heed the speaker. Greek carries that hearing-seed into words for obeying and for disregarding, showing that hearing reaches beyond sound to what is received.
ALSO GROWS
hypakouō: Obey, heed.
ὑπακούω
This compound carries the same hearing-root into response: receiving a voice can lead to obedience.
parakouō: Disregard, fail to heed.
παρακούω
The same hearing-root can name a failure to receive what is heard, illuminating the refusal in “will they not hear me.”
THE PATTERN
In scripture, speech can reach the ear without being received as a word.
To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.THE THREAD
For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.Acts 28:27 uses the same Greek hearing-root, ἀκούω (akouō), and links the ears with the heart’s understanding. It opens this verse further: hearing means more than sound arriving; it reaches toward perception and reception.
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