What Does Hebrews 11:14 Mean in the King James?
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
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 country they seek is not just a place on a map; its name carries the sense of a fatherland, a home defined by belonging.
THE MEANING
Your words make plain what home your longing seeks. When you speak as a stranger in the place you inhabit, your speech reveals a belonging that reaches beyond it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that your deepest longing stays hidden dissolves here: what you say can make the home you seek visible.
THE ROOT
πατρίδα
patrida
GROWS FROM
πατήρ (πατρ-, patēr/patr-)
Father; the word-family carries the sense of a fatherland, a homeland of belonging.
The word translated “country” is πατρίδα (patrida), a homeland or fatherland. Its root-family holds place and belonging together: the sought country is more than territory; it is home.
ALSO GROWS
patēr: father
πατήρ
This is the kinship word at the root of the fatherland image: the country is named through belonging.
patris: fatherland, homeland
πατρίς
This is the base form of the word translated “country,” keeping the sense of home within it.
patrōos: ancestral, belonging to one’s fathers
πατρῷος
This branch shows how the word-family joins a place to inherited belonging.
ἐμφανίζουσιν
emphanizousin
GROWS FROM
φαίνω
phainō
Bring to light, make appear.
“declare plainly” in this verse is emphanizousin. The verb means to make something visible or manifest. Their words bring the direction of their seeking into view; speech exposes the homeland their desire is turned toward.
ALSO GROWS
phainō: shine, appear, become visible
φαίνω
The base verb makes the image of hidden desire coming into view.
phaneroō: make manifest, reveal
φανερόω
This related verb names the same movement from what is hidden to what can be seen.
THE PATTERN
What people confess about their belonging reveals the home their deepest desire seeks.
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:THE THREAD
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.The same Greek word, πατρίδα (patrida, homeland), returns here, and the verse names the sought country as heavenly. It opens the earlier confession further: the homeland is a prepared city and a belonging with God.
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