What Does Hebrews 3:19 Mean in the King James?
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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
“Unbelief” names the absence of trust that keeps a heard promise from becoming entry into rest.
THE MEANING
The verse names the divide between hearing a promise and entering its rest: hearing alone does not become entry when trust is absent. It speaks now wherever the reader hears a promise yet cannot lean on it as trustworthy.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that hearing a promise, by itself, means its rest has already been entered.
THE ROOT
ἀπιστίαν
apistian
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Trust, reliance; putting confidence in someone or something. The word in this verse adds the Greek privative prefix a-, expressing the absence of trust.
“unbelief” in this verse is apistian. The Greek word is built around the same stem as trust: it names trust’s absence, not simply a lack of information. Its root joins the barrier to the thing that would cross it: leaning your full weight on what is heard.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: Trust, reliance; confidence placed in someone or something.
πίστις
This is the noun form that appears as “faith” in Hebrews 4:2, where the heard word is not joined with trust.
pisteuō: To trust, believe, or entrust oneself.
πιστεύω
This verb shows trust as a lived relation to what is heard, rather than mere awareness of it.
pistos: Firm, steady; trustworthy.
πιστός
The branch points to the dependable character that makes trust possible.
THE PATTERN
Trust is where hearing becomes entrance into rest; its absence leaves the heard promise unreceived.
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.THE THREAD
For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.The Greek word translated “faith” here is πίστει (pistei), from the same root as “unbelief” in Hebrews 3:19. One verse names the missing trust as the barrier to entry; the next shows the heard word remaining unreceived when it is not joined with trust.
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