What Does 1 Timothy 4:13 Mean in the King James?
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
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 word translated “exhortation” belongs to the same Greek call-family as “comfort,” so this practice both steadies and summons.
THE MEANING
Reading, encouragement, and teaching belong together as a living practice: words are received, their call is heard, and their meaning is made clear. The middle term carries both comfort and urging, so teaching can strengthen and press forward at once.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that encouragement is only reassurance: this call-family holds comfort that can also urge a response.
THE ROOT
παράκλησις
paraklēsis
GROWS FROM
καλέω
kaleō
to call, summon, or invite
The noun παράκλησις (paraklēsis, appeal or encouragement) belongs to the καλέω (kaleō, call) family; its related verb παρακαλέω (parakaleō) can mean both comfort and urge. English “exhortation” foregrounds the urging and can hide the strengthening: here the call steadies someone while summoning a response.
ALSO GROWS
parakaleō: to comfort, urge, or appeal
παρακαλέω
This related verb holds reassurance and urging together, revealing the kind of encouragement named here.
klēsis: a calling or invitation
κλῆσις
This related noun makes the call within exhortation audible: encouragement invites a response.
THE PATTERN
Scripture is read aloud, opened to understanding, and shared as encouragement so reception and response stay joined.
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.THE THREAD
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.The Greek παράκλησις (paraklēsis, appeal or encouragement) in 1 Timothy 4:13 belongs to the same word-family as παρακαλέω (parakaleō, comfort or urge), repeated here as “comforteth” and “comfort.” The shared root opens “exhortation” beyond forceful instruction: it can steady someone in distress while calling them toward a response.
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