What Does 2 Corinthians 2:5 Mean in the King James?
But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
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 grief is real, but its weight is partial; the verse does not lay all of it on everyone.
THE MEANING
Grief touches you, but only in part. The verse distinguishes being affected by pain from bearing its full weight; the hurt is real without becoming everyone’s entire burden.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that when someone is hurt, everyone must carry the full weight of that hurt.
THE ROOT
ἐπιβαρέω
epibareō
GROWS FROM
βαρ-
The three-letter Greek root βαρ- (bar-) carries the sense of weight or heaviness; ἐπιβαρέω means to weigh upon or burden.
“Overcharge” pictures weight being laid upon someone. The same root appears in words for a burden and for being weighed down, revealing that the verse speaks not only of grief but of how much of its weight is placed on the whole group.
ALSO GROWS
baros: Burden, weight
βάρος
This word names the weight that the speaker is careful not to lay on everyone in full.
bareō: To weigh down
βαρέω
This verb makes the image physical: grief can be present without everyone being weighed down by all of it.
THE PATTERN
Grief can be acknowledged as real while its weight is shared or limited instead of assigned in full to everyone.
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.THE THREAD
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.The word translated “overcharge” comes from the Greek weight-root βαρ-, also found in βάρος, “burden” or “weight.” This verse names the shared carrying of that same weight: grief can be acknowledged without making one person bear it all.
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