What Does Hebrews 9:26 Mean in the King James?
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
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 end of the world is the completion of the ages, where one self-offering annuls the missing.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks to you now: the missing that seems to demand endless repetition meets a decisive annulment in Christ’s self-offering. His appearance is singular, at the completion of the ages. Your present is held within that completed act, not an endless cycle of repeated suffering.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what is missing in you can only be addressed through an endless repetition of sacrifice; the verse locates its annulment in one self-offering.
THE ROOT
συντέλεια
synteleia
GROWS FROM
τελ-
tel-
To bring something to completion or its appointed end.
The KJV phrase “end of the world” has a more precise temporal image: “end” is συντέλεια (synteleia, consummation), and “world” translates the plural αἰώνων (aiōnōn, ages). The verse locates Jesus’ appearance at the completion of the ages and gives “end” the sense of consummation.
ALSO GROWS
telos: End, goal, or outcome.
τέλος
The same word-family holds the end together with the goal reached, giving completion a sense of fulfillment.
teleō: To complete or fulfill.
τελέω
This verb carries the act of bringing something to completion, echoing the verse’s claim that the appearance has a completed purpose.
ἀθέτησις
athetēsis
GROWS FROM
ἀθετε-
athete-
To set aside, annul, or invalidate.
The word translated “put away” names an annulment: his appearing is directed toward setting aside the missing. The sacrifice is presented as a decisive act with an effect, not simply as suffering.
ALSO GROWS
atheteō: To set aside, reject, or nullify.
ἀθετέω
This verbal form shows the active sense behind the noun: something is rendered invalid or set aside.
athetēsis: Annulment or disannulling.
ἀθέτησις
Hebrews 7:18 uses this same noun for the disannulling of a commandment, showing how it names the setting aside of something’s claim.
ἁμαρτία
hamartia
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρταν-
hamartan-
To miss or err; a failure to meet the mark.
The Greek word-family for “sin” carries the image of missing or erring, letting the word be heard as more than a detached label. Here, it is the missing itself that is named as annulled.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: To miss or err.
ἁμαρτάνω
This verb makes the root image plain: the missing in the verse is connected to the act of missing.
hamartēma: A miss, error, or offense.
ἁμάρτημα
This related noun can name a particular instance of missing, linking the broad word “sin” to concrete acts.
THE PATTERN
One completed act answers what would otherwise seem to require repetition.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.THE THREAD
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.Hebrews 9:26 uses ἅπαξ (hapax, once); Hebrews 10:10 uses ἐφάπαξ (ephapax, once for all), from the same Greek word-family. The later verse makes explicit that this offering’s singularity is its settled character.
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