What Does 1 Corinthians 2:10 Mean in the King James?
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
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
God’s depths become knowable to us through the Spirit that searches them and brings them into view.
THE MEANING
God makes what is hidden in God knowable to us through the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, reaching even the depths of God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that God’s deepest things are permanently inaccessible: the verse says the Spirit searches them and reveals them to us.
THE ROOT
ἀπεκάλυψεν
apekalypsen
GROWS FROM
καλυπ- (kalyp-, from καλύπτω)
Cover or conceal; with ἀπό, the verb pictures uncovering or disclosure.
“revealed” in this verse is apekalypsen. The word pictures revelation as an uncovering: what is hidden is brought into view. The verse moves from the depths of God to what becomes knowable through the Spirit.
ALSO GROWS
apokalypsis: Revelation, disclosure, uncovering.
ἀποκάλυψις
It names the same movement from what is concealed to what is seen.
kalymma: Covering, veil.
κάλυμμα
The related word for a covering makes the image in “revealed” concrete: disclosure brings what is behind the covering into view.
πνεύματος
pneumatos
GROWS FROM
πνε- (pne-, from πνέω)
Breathe or blow; the word family carries breath, moving air, and spirit.
The Greek word belongs to the breathe-and-blow family, holding together what English can separate as spirit, wind, and breath. Here this living breath searches all things, even the depths of God.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: To breathe or blow.
πνέω
This verb shows the movement of air at the root of the word family used for Spirit.
pnoē: Breath or a blast of wind.
πνοή
This related word makes the breath-and-wind sense audible within the same Greek family.
THE PATTERN
What is hidden becomes visible through divine searching and disclosure.
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.THE THREAD
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.The Greek verb translated “searcheth” comes from the same verb family as the Spirit “searcheth” in this verse. Romans turns the lens toward the heart: divine searching reaches what is hidden and knows the Spirit’s mind.
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