What Does 2 Timothy 2:2 Mean in the King James?
And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
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
What you hear becomes a living trust when it is placed in the care of people who can carry it onward.
THE MEANING
The verse places you within a chain of hearing and entrusting: what reaches you through many witnesses passes into the care of trustworthy people who can teach others. Its life extends beyond the first hearing because it can be carried forward by people able to share it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the idea that receiving a teaching means keeping it as private possession; here, what is heard is a trust whose meaning includes its onward passage.
THE ROOT
παράθου
parathou
GROWS FROM
τίθημι
tithēmi
To set or place.
“commit” in this verse is parathou. The verb pictures placing something into another’s care. A related noun, παραθήκη (parathēkē, “entrusted deposit”), appears in 2 Timothy 1:12 and 1:14, giving the teaching a sense of custody as it moves from one person to another.
ALSO GROWS
parathēkē: Entrusted deposit.
παραθήκη
This related word names something held in trust, illuminating how the teaching is placed in another’s care.
hypotithēmi: Set before; put forward for consideration.
ὑποτίθημι
This related verb appears in 1 Timothy 4:6 for putting teaching before others, echoing the passage’s movement from received words to what others can learn.
πιστοῖς
pistois
GROWS FROM
πείθω
peithō
To persuade or convince; in the middle or passive, to be persuaded and trust.
The word for “faithful” belongs to the same word family as trust: these are people others can lean their full weight on. Their trustworthiness lets the received teaching continue outward through them.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: Trust; confidence.
πίστις
This noun shows the trust woven into the description of the people who receive the teaching.
pepoitha: I have been persuaded; I trust.
πέποιθα
This form makes the connection between being persuaded and trusting explicit, revealing the relational weight behind “faithful.”
THE PATTERN
What is received stays alive as it is entrusted and taught onward through successive people.
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:THE THREAD
Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.The same Greek word, πιστός (pistos, “trustworthy”), describes the person who can be relied on. This connection casts the people in 2 Timothy as stewards of what they receive, with its onward teaching held within that trust.
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