What Does 1 John 5:15 Mean in the King James?
And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
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 same Greek ask-word runs through “ask,” “petitions,” and “desired,” tying what you ask to what the verse says you have.
THE MEANING
The verse gives you two linked certainties: he hears you, and you have the requests you have made to him. It places the petition in the present of that hearing, without describing the form or timing of its answer.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It unsettles the belief that a request is nowhere until its result can be seen: the verse already calls the petition something you have before the one who hears.
THE ROOT
αἰτώμεθα
aitōmetha
GROWS FROM
αἰτε- (aite-), the Greek word family of αἰτέω
to ask, request
“ask / petitions / desired” in this verse is aitōmetha. Across the English words “ask,” “petitions,” and “desired,” Greek holds the same αἰτέω (aiteō) family together. The request remains the through-line from asking to the petition the verse says you have.
ALSO GROWS
aiteō: to ask, request
αἰτέω
This verb appears in the forms translated “ask” and “desired.”
aitēma: a request, petition
αἴτημα
This noun names the petitions themselves, carrying the same ask-family into what is requested.
THE PATTERN
Being heard lets a request be held with confidence before its visible outcome is named.
He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:THE THREAD
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.In Greek, “asked” and “ask” here belong to the same αἰτέω (aiteō) family that links “ask,” “petitions,” and “desired” in 1 John 5:15. “In my name” speaks of his nature, showing what shapes the asking as the shared root carries it toward receiving.
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