What Does 1 Timothy 4:14 Mean in the King James?

Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

1 Timothy 4:14 · KJV

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THE KEY

The gift within you is favor taking form, received through prophetic speech and the laying on of hands.

THE MEANING

The capacity within you is a received expression of favor, and its presence is not erased when it is neglected. Prophetic speech and the elders’ hands mark a giving that is both inward and shared.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that a gift is real only while you are displaying it: the verse names something already in you, even when it is neglected.

THE ROOT

χάρισμα

charisma

GROWS FROM

χαρ-

char-

favor, gracious giving

The word ⁨χάρισμα⁩ (charisma, gift) is built on the language of ⁨χάρις⁩ (charis, favor). Its name holds capacity and favor together: what is in you is a received expression of gracious giving.

ALSO GROWS

charis: Favor or gracious kindness.

χάρις

This is the word-family beneath ⁨χάρισμα⁩, keeping favor inside the meaning of the gift.

charizomai: To grant or give as an act of favor.

χαρίζομαι

This branch makes the gift’s received quality visible: it comes as favor given.

ἀμέλει

amelei

GROWS FROM

μελ-

mel-

care, concern

The word for neglect is formed with a negative from the language of care and concern. The gift can remain present within you while being left unattended.

ALSO GROWS

melō: To be a care or concern.

μέλω

This root shows that neglect is a withdrawal of care from something that matters.

epimeleomai: To take care of or attend to someone or something.

ἐπιμελέομαι

This related word gives the positive side of the contrast: attention can meet what is already present.

THE PATTERN

A capacity received within a person becomes visible through its exercise and service to others.

And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

Exodus 31:3 · KJVThe verse presents wisdom and workmanship as capacities given within a person, joining inner endowment with visible skill.

Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

Romans 12:6 · KJVDifferent gifts arise from grace and take shape through their expression.

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1 Peter 4:10 · KJVA received gift becomes visible as it is shared with others.

THE THREAD

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

2 Timothy 1:6 · KJV

The same Greek word ⁨χάρισμα⁩ (charisma, gift) appears in both verses, along with the phrase “which is in thee.” This verse names the gift as given; the connected verse shows it as already present and capable of being stirred up.

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