What Does 1 Corinthians 2:7 Mean in the King James?
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
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
What is hidden from your sight is not absent or improvised; God’s wisdom was marked out before the ages with your glory as its destination.
THE MEANING
God’s wisdom meets you as a mystery: real, present, and not yet fully visible. Its hiddenness does not mean it is absent; it is marked out before the ages and directed toward your glory, the weight and honor you share in it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that if you cannot yet see what God has prepared, nothing has been prepared for you.
THE ROOT
ἀποκεκρυμμένην
apokekrymmenēn
GROWS FROM
κρυπ-
krypt-
To conceal or keep out of sight.
The Greek word for hidden wisdom belongs to the same word family as words for what is concealed or kept secret. The verse holds concealment and purpose together: what you cannot yet see has already been marked out toward glory.
ALSO GROWS
kryptos: Hidden, concealed.
κρυπτός
It shows that hiddenness describes something out of sight, not something nonexistent.
apokryphos: Hidden, secret.
ἀπόκρυφος
This branch echoes the verse’s mystery: God’s wisdom is concealed, yet it remains God’s wisdom.
προώρισεν
proōrisen
GROWS FROM
ὁριζ-
horiz-
To mark out, set a boundary, or determine; προ- (pro-) adds the sense of beforehand.
“ordained” in this verse is proōrisen. The verse describes this wisdom as marked out before the ages, with glory as its direction. Its destination is already within the scope of what God has determined.
ALSO GROWS
horizō: To mark out, determine, set bounds.
ὁρίζω
It reveals the sense of a purpose given shape and direction.
aphorizō: To set apart, mark off.
ἀφορίζω
The shared base keeps the image of something deliberately distinguished or bounded.
δόξαν
doxan
GROWS FROM
δοκ-
dok-
To think, seem, or regard.
The verse names glory as the destination of this hidden wisdom. Here glory carries the sense of weight and honor, the substantial share toward which the wisdom is directed.
ALSO GROWS
dokeō: To think, seem, or regard.
δοκέω
Its sense of regard helps show how this word family touches esteem and honor.
endoxos: Honored, glorious, held in esteem.
ἔνδοξος
It keeps glory connected with recognized honor and weight.
THE PATTERN
What God marks out before the ages can remain hidden through them and still arrive at its appointed unveiling.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,THE THREAD
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:The word translated “hid” belongs to the same Greek root family as “hidden” in this verse. Colossians shows the movement from concealment across the ages to manifestation, opening the verse’s hidden wisdom toward its intended end.
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