What Does 1 Timothy 4:3 Mean in the King James?
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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 places God’s created provision in the hands of those who receive it with trust and thanksgiving.
THE MEANING
The verse holds God’s creating, your receiving, and your giving thanks together as one movement of trust in what is true. The food God creates is received as provision, and gratitude belongs to that reception.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that abstaining from created food is inherently the truer or purer response is undone here: the verse associates knowing the truth with receiving it thankfully.
THE ROOT
εὐχαριστίας
eucharistias
GROWS FROM
χάρις
charis
Favor, gracious gift; in this word family, thanksgiving acknowledges favor received.
The Greek word for thanksgiving, εὐχαριστία (eucharistia), belongs to the word family of χάρις (charis), meaning favor. Gratitude is not an extra payment for food; it gives voice to the recognition that what is received is a gift.
ALSO GROWS
charis: Favor, gracious gift.
χάρις
This is the family’s core sense of favor, which makes thanksgiving a response to what is received.
eucharisteō: To give thanks.
εὐχαριστέω
This verb is the act expressed by the noun for thanksgiving: receiving provision and voicing gratitude belong together.
charizomai: To grant freely, show favor.
χαρίζομαι
This related verb keeps the sense of freely given favor close to the verse’s grateful reception.
μετάλημψιν
metalēmpsin
GROWS FROM
λαμβάνω
lambanō
To take or receive.
The word translated “received” is μετάλημψις (metalēmpsis), a word for partaking or sharing in something. The food is presented as something to participate in, with thanksgiving as the fitting response.
ALSO GROWS
lambanō: To take, receive.
λαμβάνω
This is the basic verb-family sense behind receiving what God has created.
metalambanō: To partake, share in.
μεταλαμβάνω
This related verb brings out the participatory shade of receiving: the created food is taken as a share.
ἔκτισεν
ektisen
GROWS FROM
κτίζω
ktizō
To create, bring into being.
The verse names the food as what God created, then describes its reception. Creation and gratitude are joined in the same sentence: the created thing is meant to be received with thanks.
ALSO GROWS
ktisis: Creation, the created order.
κτίσις
This related noun broadens the view from an individual food to what has been created.
ktisma: A created thing, creature.
κτίσμα
This noun names something as a product of creation, echoing the verse’s focus on what God made to be received.
THE PATTERN
Created provision is received with gratitude, and that reception expresses trust.
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.THE THREAD
For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?The same Greek thanksgiving word family appears beside food again: here the meal is received and thanks are voiced for it. First Timothy joins gratitude to knowing the truth; Corinthians shows that gratitude in the ordinary act of eating.
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