What Does 2 Timothy 1:15 Mean in the King James?

This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

2 Timothy 1:15 · KJV

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 is more than absence: the verse names a directional rupture, people turning away from you.

THE MEANING

The verse speaks a painful truth now: people can turn away from you, and the loss does not need to be made abstract or polite. Phygellus and Hermogenes keep the rupture attached to names.

THE ROOT

ἀπεστράφησαν

apestraphēsan

GROWS FROM

στρέφω

strephō

to turn or twist; with the added sense of “away,” to turn aside or withdraw

The phrase carries motion: people reorient themselves away from someone. English can make “turned away” sound like a vague absence, while the Greek keeps the direction of the rupture in view.

ALSO GROWS

strephō: to turn or twist

στρέφω

This base verb supplies the turning motion inside the phrase.

epistrephō: to turn back or return

ἐπιστρέφω

The same root can describe a change of direction back toward someone; here the movement goes away.

apostrophē: a turning away or withdrawal

ἀποστροφή

This noun makes the directional movement into a named act of withdrawal.

THE PATTERN

When a bond breaks through departure, the text names the leaving directly instead of disguising it.

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

2 Timothy 4:4 · KJVThe turning away is named plainly, and the verse shows the direction the ears take instead.

From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

John 6:66 · KJVThe text states the departure as an end to walking with him, much as this verse names people turning away.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Psalm 27:10 · KJVThe verse does not conceal the forsaking; it names both the rupture and the one who receives the forsaken.

THE THREAD

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

2 Timothy 4:4 · KJV

The same Greek verb, ⁨ἀποστρέφω⁩ (apostrephō, to turn away), appears when ears turn from truth. Here the turn is relational; there it is perceptual, showing how one root names a reorientation away.

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