What Does 2 Timothy 2:18 Mean in the King James?
Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
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
A claim that resurrection is already past turns the Greek’s “standing up” into a closed event, and makes other people’s trust fall.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks now whenever a confident claim says resurrection is already finished: the claim misses truth and pulls some people’s trust down with it. The hope of rising is not contained by the certainty of a mistaken account.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a confident claim about truth cannot harm another person’s trust. Here, a claim about resurrection’s timing topples the trust of some.
THE ROOT
ἀνάστασις
anastasis
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι
histēmi
Stand, or set upright.
The word names a rising, literally a standing up. The claim says this rising is wholly past, while Acts 24:15 uses the same noun for a resurrection still held in hope.
ALSO GROWS
anistēmi: Rise, stand up.
ἀνίστημι
This verb shares the standing-up image in the verse’s “resurrection.”
histēmi: Stand, set upright.
ἵστημι
This is the root that lets “resurrection” carry the image of standing again.
ἠστόχησαν
ēstochēsan
GROWS FROM
στόχος
stochos
A target or mark; a point to aim at.
“erred” in this verse is ēstochēsan. The verse frames the error as a missed aim, not merely a different opinion. The claim’s certainty does not make its direction true.
ALSO GROWS
astocheō: Miss the mark or fail to reach the aim.
ἀστοχέω
This is the verb behind “erred,” picturing a claim that does not land on truth.
stochazomai: Aim at, or form a conjecture.
στοχάζομαι
This related verb keeps the image of direction and aim visible in the word family.
πίστις
pistis
GROWS FROM
πείθω
peithō
Persuade, win confidence, or be persuaded.
The faith being overturned is trust: leaning your full weight on what you find reliable. The false claim makes that trust lose its footing.
ALSO GROWS
pisteuō: Trust, believe, or rely on.
πιστεύω
This verb shows πίστις as trust placed in someone or something.
pistos: Trustworthy, reliable.
πιστός
This branch names the steadiness that makes trust possible.
THE PATTERN
The promise of resurrection keeps opening toward life beyond what has already happened.
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.THE THREAD
And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.This verse uses the same Greek noun, ἀνάστασις (anastasis, rising or standing up), for a resurrection still held as hope. The shared word makes the timing contrast visible: that hope is not already exhausted.
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