What Does Hebrews 8:12 Mean in the King James?
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
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
Here, mercy takes the form of God refusing to keep your wrong as the living record of who you are.
THE MEANING
God’s favor meets your misalignment, and your missing is no longer kept in remembrance. The wrong is named, but it does not remain the governing record between you and God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this undoes is that your failures must remain God’s active record of you.
THE ROOT
μνησθῶ
mnēsthō
GROWS FROM
μνη- (from μιμνῄσκομαι, mimnēskomai)
Remember, call to mind, keep in memory.
“remember no more” in this verse is mnēsthō. The promise is that the wrong will no longer be kept in remembrance; it does not say the event never happened. The focus is on ending its continued place in view.
ALSO GROWS
mnēmoneuō: Remember, be mindful of.
μνημονεύω
This related verb shows the same word family describing the continued act of keeping something in mind.
mneia: Remembrance, mention.
μνεία
It links remembrance with what is brought to mind or mentioned, sharpening the force of the promise that the wrong will be remembered no more.
ἀδικίαις
adikiais
GROWS FROM
δικ- (dik-, from δίκη, dikē)
Justice, right, what is due.
“unrighteousness” in this verse is adikiais. The word ἀδικία is formed with a negative prefix before the family of δίκη, naming a departure from what is right. Beside the separate image of missing, the verse presents wrong as misalignment as well as a missed mark.
ALSO GROWS
dikaios: Just, right, aligned.
δίκαιος
It names the positive quality whose absence the word for unrighteousness describes.
dikaiosynē: Justice, righteousness, alignment.
δικαιοσύνη
The same word family connects wrongdoing with the possibility of alignment.
ἁμαρτιῶν
hamartiōn
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτ-
hamart-
Miss, fail to reach or hit.
“sins” in this verse is hamartiōn. The word carries the sense of missing, while unrighteousness names a departure from alignment. The verse names both, then says neither remains the active record.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: Miss, fail, do wrong.
ἁμαρτάνω
The verb keeps the word family tied to the act of missing.
hamartēma: Error, wrongdoing.
ἁμάρτημα
This related noun gives the same family a concrete form: a particular failure, not an identity.
THE PATTERN
Mercy is pictured as wrongdoing being removed from the record that governs the present.
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.THE THREAD
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.Hebrews carries forward this covenant promise from Jeremiah: knowing the LORD and the release of wrongdoing belong in one movement. The paired promises of forgiveness and no further remembrance show mercy as both pardon and the end of continued accounting.
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