What Does 1 Peter 2:22 Mean in the King James?
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
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 verse joins the absence of missing with the absence of bait: nothing in his life falls short, and nothing in his mouth lures another through deceit.
THE MEANING
The reader meets a life with no missing and speech without a hidden hook. Its wholeness holds action and words together in the present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A person can be whole while hiding intent in speech; this verse places integrity of action beside integrity of speech.
THE ROOT
ἁμαρτίαν
hamartian
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτ-
hamart-
Missing, falling short of a mark
The word belongs to the ἁμαρτάνω (hamartanō, to miss) family, so “no sin” carries the image of no missing, no strike that falls short. Paired with the mouth’s freedom from δόλος (dolos, bait or deceit), it describes wholeness across action and speech.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: To miss, go wrong
ἁμαρτάνω
The verb gives “missing” the shape of an act; the verse says no such miss occurs.
hamartōlos: Sinner, one characterized by missing
ἁμαρτωλός
This related word names a person through the miss, while this verse describes a life with no missing.
δόλος
dolos
GROWS FROM
δολ-
dol-
Bait, lure; deceit that conceals its intent
“guile” in this verse is dolos. δόλος (dolos, baited deceit) pictures false speech as a lure with a hidden hook. “Found in his mouth” makes speech the place where that bait is absent, joining truthful words to the absence of missing named by ἁμαρτία (hamartia, missing).
ALSO GROWS
dolios: Deceitful, treacherous
δόλιος
The adjective carries the same hidden intent, showing how the bait in speech can characterize a person or act.
dolioō: To deceive, beguile
δολιόω
This verb makes the root’s lure active: speech can draw someone in by concealing what it intends.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness shows in speech where no hidden bait sits behind the words.
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.THE THREAD
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.The Greek wording echoes Isaiah with the same noun, δόλος (dolos, deceit or bait), while the KJV renders it “deceit” here and “guile” in 1 Peter. The echo places a mouth without hidden intent alongside a life marked by no violence.
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