What Does 2 Thessalonians 1:7 Mean in the King James?
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
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 rest promised to the troubled arrives with an unveiling: the Lord Jesus is disclosed as the one whose name carries deliverance.
THE MEANING
Your present trouble is named as real, but it is not the final shape of your life. This verse places your rest at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels. Jesus’ name carries deliverance, and the word “revealed” carries the image of uncovering: the promise is that the deliverer is disclosed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that being troubled means pressure has the final word: it names a promised rest tied to Jesus’ unveiling.
THE ROOT
ἀποκαλύψει
apokalypsei
GROWS FROM
καλύπτω
καλύπτω (kalyptō): cover, conceal.
The word translated “revealed” belongs to the ἀποκαλύπτω family: an uncovering. What is disclosed is the Lord Jesus, and that unveiling is joined to the promised relief of the troubled.
ALSO GROWS
apokalyptō: uncover, disclose, reveal
ἀποκαλύπτω
This verb adds ἀπό to the root, giving the sense of uncovering what had been covered.
katakalyptō: cover up, veil
κατακαλύπτω
This compound keeps the same καλύπτω root and shows the covering that revelation reverses.
apokalypsis: uncovering, revelation
ἀποκάλυψις
This is the noun used in the verse; its ψ reflects the π of the καλύπτω family in the noun’s formation.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
ישע (yasha): deliver, bring out from danger.
Jesus is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Yeshua, built from the root of deliverance. The name’s nature echoes the promise here: relief belongs to the unveiling of the deliverer.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: deliver, bring out
יָשַׁע
This verb carries the root action expressed in the name Yeshua.
yeshuah: deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun names the release the verse promises to those who are troubled.
moshia: deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This word names the one who brings deliverance, illuminating the nature carried by Jesus’ name.
θλιβομένοις
thlibomenois
GROWS FROM
θλίβω
θλίβω (thlibō): press, squeeze, afflict.
The word for “troubled” pictures people under pressure. Set beside the promised ἄνεσις (anesis, relief), the verse places the pressed condition within a promise of release.
ALSO GROWS
thlibō: press, squeeze, afflict
θλίβω
This is the verb behind “troubled,” making the pressure in the verse concrete.
thlipsis: pressure, affliction
θλῖψις
This noun belongs to the same family, naming the pressure experienced by those who are troubled.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names distress honestly while placing it within God’s movement toward relief.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.THE THREAD
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;The Greek noun ἀποκάλυψις (apokalypsis, “uncovering”) in this verse and in 1 Peter 1:13 belongs to the same καλύπτω (kalyptō, “cover”) family. Here, hope is also tied to Jesus’ unveiling, holding present pressure within a disclosure still to come.
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