What Does Hebrews 13:13 Mean in the King James?
Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
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 way to him runs outside the boundary of belonging, where the reproach attached to him becomes what you carry.
THE MEANING
The reader is called toward him beyond the boundary of accepted belonging. There, the disgrace attached to him accompanies this nearness. Going out does not leave him behind; it is movement unto him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that closeness to him guarantees approval from the circle that rejects him.
THE ROOT
ὀνειδισμόν
oneidismon
GROWS FROM
ὀνειδ-
oneid-
Reproach, disgrace, or taunting.
The Greek noun for reproach belongs to the same word family as the verb for insulting someone. This is more than a private feeling: it is disgrace imposed in public, carried by the one who stands with him.
ALSO GROWS
oneidos: Reproach or disgrace.
ὄνειδος
This related noun shows the shared root naming the disgrace itself, not merely the act of enduring it.
oneidizō: To reproach, insult, or taunt.
ὀνειδίζω
The related verb names the act that produces the reproach carried in this verse.
THE PATTERN
Moving toward the rejected one carries a cost visible at the boundary of belonging.
And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.THE THREAD
Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.The same Greek word family names Christ’s reproach here and in Hebrews 11:26. What Moses esteems above Egypt’s treasures becomes the disgrace carried by those who go to him.
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