What Does 2 Corinthians 11:28 Mean in the King James?
Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
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 Greek word for care is linked to apportioning: all the assemblies claim a share of Paul’s attention, day after day.
THE MEANING
This verse recognizes the daily pressure of holding many communities in view. Care is real labor, even when its work is carried in attention rather than seen from the outside.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that unseen care is weightless: attention to people can itself be a daily burden.
THE ROOT
μέριμνα
merimna
GROWS FROM
μερίζω
merizō
To divide, apportion, or assign shares.
The Greek word family links care with dividing or apportioning. That connection gives Paul’s daily concern a texture English leaves unstated: care for all the assemblies takes a share of his attention, again and again.
ALSO GROWS
merizō: To divide, distribute, or assign a share.
μερίζω
Its sense of apportioning makes visible how concern extends across all the assemblies.
meris: A portion or share.
μέρις
The idea of a portion echoes how the many communities occupy a share of Paul’s daily attention.
THE PATTERN
Care has weight, and scripture depicts that weight as borne together or entrusted beyond the self.
Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.THE THREAD
For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.The verb translated “care” here belongs to the same Greek word family as the care that comes upon Paul daily. The shared root shows concern both as a pressure borne across many assemblies and as a quality of attention another person can share.
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