What Does 2 Corinthians 11:27 Mean in the King James?
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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
This verse measures endurance in the body’s lost sleep, strength, food, water, warmth, and covering.
THE MEANING
The verse keeps physical strain in view: sleeplessness, toil, hunger, thirst, cold, and exposure are named as concrete conditions. The body’s depletion remains part of the truth this verse speaks now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that endurance makes physical need irrelevant: the verse names lost sleep, hunger, thirst, cold, and exposure plainly.
THE ROOT
ἀγρυπνίαις
agrypniais
GROWS FROM
ἀγρυπν-
agrypn-
Sleepless wakefulness; staying awake through the night.
“watchings” in this verse is agrypniais. The Greek word holds sleeplessness within wakefulness itself. It reveals lost rest as one of the physical costs named alongside hunger, thirst, cold, and exposure.
ALSO GROWS
agrypnos: Sleepless; unable to sleep.
ἄγρυπνος
This adjective shares the word-family and makes the bodily cost of the watchings visible.
agrypneō: To stay awake; to keep watch.
ἀγρυπνέω
This verb shows the wakeful action connected to the sleepless nights in the verse.
κόπῳ
kopō
GROWS FROM
κοπ-
kop-
Toil and exertion that wear a person down.
The Greek word carries the sense of labor as well as weariness. Its word-family joins exertion to the depletion that follows, placing bodily strain at the start of the list.
ALSO GROWS
kopos: Toil, labor, weariness.
κόπος
This noun is the form behind “weariness” and keeps the effort itself in view.
kopiaō: To toil, labor, grow weary.
κοπιάω
This related verb appears in the labor language of 1 Corinthians 4:12, connecting work with the weariness named here.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names bodily deprivation and exposure as concrete realities.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;THE THREAD
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:The Greek verb κοπιῶμεν (kopiōmen, “we toil”) belongs to the same word-family as κόπος (kopos, “toil, weariness”) behind “weariness” here. The shared root connects the body’s depletion with labor done by hand.
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