What Does Colossians 4:16 Mean in the King James?
And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
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 one assembly reads is meant to become another assembly’s knowing; the verse makes circulation part of understanding.
THE MEANING
The word in front of you lives beyond a single reader or room. It moves across gatherings, where what one group reads is also received by another, while each makes room for a word coming from elsewhere.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that a word is complete once one person or group possesses it; its life includes being received and read across communities.
THE ROOT
ἀναγινώσκω
anaginōskō
GROWS FROM
γινώσκω
ginōskō
To know, recognize, or perceive.
The Greek word for “read” carries the root for knowing and recognizing. Here, reading is not detached from understanding: the same words are recognized across gathered communities.
ALSO GROWS
ginōskō: Know, recognize, perceive.
γινώσκω
This is the knowing word inside “read,” revealing the understanding carried by the act of reading.
gnōsis: Knowledge, understanding.
γνῶσις
This related word shows the same knowing family that links reading with what a community comes to understand.
anagnōsis: Reading, especially reading aloud.
ἀνάγνωσις
This noun names the act of reading that the verse asks to be shared across assemblies.
ἐπιστολή
epistolē
GROWS FROM
στέλλω
stellō
To send or dispatch.
“Epistle” belongs to a Greek family of sending words: a letter is a message set in motion. Its route matters here, the writing is meant to travel between communities and be read in each.
ALSO GROWS
epistellō: Send a message or written instruction.
ἐπιστέλλω
This sending verb is the source of “epistle,” showing the letter as communication carried toward its readers.
apostellō: Send out, dispatch.
ἀποστέλλω
It shares the sending root and echoes the passage’s movement of a written word from one assembly to another.
THE PATTERN
Scripture lives among people through shared reading that carries its words across gatherings.
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.THE THREAD
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.“Readeth” uses the same Greek knowing word found in Colossians: ἀναγινώσκω (anaginōskō), meaning read or recognize. Revelation places the reader alongside hearers and keepers, opening the shared movement of the word that Colossians describes.
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