What Does 2 Corinthians 9:15 Mean in the King James?
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
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 thanks God for a gift that can be truly received even when no account can contain it.
THE MEANING
God’s gift reaches you as something gratitude can recognize without exhausting it in words. What cannot be fully narrated is still received and named as gift. Thanksgiving is present even where explanation reaches its edge.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that you must be able to explain God’s gift fully before your gratitude is real.
THE ROOT
ἀνεκδιηγήτῳ
anekdiēgētō
GROWS FROM
διηγέομαι
diēgeomai
to recount or narrate
“unspeakable” in this verse is anekdiēgētō. The Greek word is built around recounting: the gift cannot be narrated out to its full extent. Gratitude names a reality without reducing it to a complete explanation.
ALSO GROWS
diēgēsis: narration, account
διήγησις
This related word makes the root’s focus on telling or recounting clear.
ekdiēgeomai: recount fully
ἐκδιηγέομαι
The compound echoes the sense that no full account can contain the gift.
δωρεά
dōrea
GROWS FROM
δω-
dō-
to give
The give-family names both the act of giving and what is given. Thanksgiving answers a prior giving, while the gift remains too large for a complete account.
ALSO GROWS
didōmi: to give
δίδωμι
The verb exposes the giving carried within the word for gift.
dōron: a gift
δῶρον
This related noun names the thing received, linking the gift to its giver.
THE PATTERN
What comes from God exceeds a complete human account while still being received and answered with wonder or gratitude.
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:THE THREAD
And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.The same Greek word for gift, δωρεά (dōrea), appears here for what is poured out on the Gentiles. The word connects God’s uncontainable giving with a gift that is openly shared.
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