What Does Hebrews 1:2 Mean in the King James?
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
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 Son is both heir of all things and the one through whom the ages themselves are made.
THE MEANING
God’s speech reaches you in the Son, appointed to inherit all things. The ages themselves are made through him, so the time you inhabit lies within the scope of that inheritance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that God’s voice is absent from your present is met by the verse’s claim that God speaks to us in the Son.
THE ROOT
αἰῶνας
aiōnas
GROWS FROM
αἰών
aiōn
An age or span of time; the course of an age.
The Greek word rendered “worlds” also means “ages.” The verse opens the making of the world onto the making of the ages: time’s unfolding, too, comes through the Son.
ALSO GROWS
aiōn: A span or course of time.
αἰών
The singular form makes the temporal sense beneath “worlds” visible.
aiōnios: Belonging to or extending through an age.
αἰώνιος
This related form carries the same age-language into descriptions of what belongs to the ages.
κληρονόμον
klēronomon
GROWS FROM
κληρ-
klēr-
A lot or allotted share.
The Greek word for “heir” carries the sense of receiving an assigned share. All things are appointed to the Son as his inheritance, while the ages themselves are made through him.
ALSO GROWS
klēros: An assigned portion or lot.
κλῆρος
It reveals the language of allotment inside the Son’s inheritance.
klēronomia: A share received as an inheritance.
κληρονομία
This related word names the inheritance that the verse says encompasses all things.
klēronomeō: To receive an allotted share as an inheritance.
κληρονομέω
It keeps the focus on receiving what is assigned, not merely holding a title.
THE PATTERN
The one who receives all things as inheritance is also the one through whom creation and the ages come to be.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:THE THREAD
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.“Worlds” translates the same Greek word, αἰῶνας (aiōnas), as in Hebrews 1:2. Here the ages are framed by God’s word, opening the connection between God’s speech in the Son and the structure of the ages themselves.
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