What Does Hebrews 12:5 Mean in the King James?
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
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 rebuke is named as part of being raised as a child, placing its sting inside a relationship rather than outside it.
THE MEANING
This address reaches you now as a child of the Lord: correction is held inside the language of relationship. The verse names two ways of meeting it, treating it as nothing or losing heart under it, while still calling you “My son.” It makes room for the sting of rebuke without making rebuke proof of abandonment.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that correction means rejection is unsettled here: the address calls you “My son” and places the rebuke within the Lord’s care for a child.
THE ROOT
παιδεία
paideia
GROWS FROM
παιδ-
Child; by extension, the raising, instruction, and discipline of a child.
The word translated “chastening” belongs to the same Greek family as “child” and “train.” It lets correction be heard as formative care within a parent-child bond, while the verse still names it as rebuke and does not erase its sting.
ALSO GROWS
pais: A child or young person.
παῖς
This is the family’s seed idea: the correction is addressed to someone named as a child.
paideuō: To bring up, instruct, train, or discipline.
παιδεύω
It makes the formative work of chastening visible beneath the English word.
paidagōgos: A guardian or instructor who accompanies and guides a child.
παιδαγωγός
This branch keeps the emphasis on care and formation as a child is guided.
THE PATTERN
Correction is presented as a form of care within a parent-child relationship.
Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.THE THREAD
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.The word translated “chasteneth” comes from the same Greek word family as “chastening” in this verse. The next verse makes the family bond explicit: the one who corrects is also the one who loves and receives the son.
Read the SDV Bible.
Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.
The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us