What Does John 1:29 Mean in the King James?
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
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 Greek verb for taking away also means lifting or carrying, so the Lamb removes the world’s missing by taking it up.
THE MEANING
The Lamb of God takes up and removes the world’s missing, and that claim reaches you within the word “world.” Your failure is something this verse says is being borne away; it does not name you as beyond its reach.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Your missing is too deep or too defining to be carried away.
THE ROOT
αἴρων
airōn
GROWS FROM
αἰρ-
The Greek root αἰρ- (air-) carries the senses lift, carry, and take away.
The verb translated “taketh away” can also mean to lift or carry. Its related compounds keep both movements visible: ἐπαίρω (epairō, lift up) raises, while ἀπαίρω (apairō, take away) removes; the word lets the removal be heard as something first taken up.
ALSO GROWS
epairō: Lift up, raise.
ἐπαίρω
This compound preserves the lifting sense within the same Greek word family.
apairō: Take away, remove, depart.
ἀπαίρω
This compound makes the removal sense explicit while retaining the same αἰρ- root.
ἁμαρτίαν
hamartían
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτ-
The Greek family ἁμαρτ- (hamart-) carries the sense of missing or erring and, in use, names wrongdoing.
“sin” in this verse is hamartían. The verse names the world’s missing with ἁμαρτίαν (hamartían), a word tied to missing and erring rather than an abstract, sealed category. The Lamb’s action is directed at that missing itself: he takes it up and removes it.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: Miss, err, do wrong.
ἁμαρτάνω
This verb shares the root and shows the action carried within the noun translated “sin.”
hamartēma: An error, wrong, or offense.
ἁμάρτημα
This related noun names an instance or result of the same missing.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
The Hebrew root יָשַׁע (yasha) means to deliver, bringing someone out of constriction into spaciousness.
The name rendered “Jesus” carries the nature of deliverance. The one named here as the Lamb bears away the world’s missing, and his name belongs to the same movement from constriction toward spaciousness.
ALSO GROWS
yeshu‘ah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun shares the root and names the deliverance carried in Yeshua’s name.
moshia‘: Deliverer, one who delivers.
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This form shares the root and names the one who brings deliverance.
THE PATTERN
The burden of many is taken up by a single bearer and carried away.
And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.THE THREAD
And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.In Greek, this verse repeats the root ἁμαρτ- (hamart-, missing) and uses ἄρῃ (arē, take away), a form of αἴρω (airō, lift or carry away). John 1:29 names the scope as the world; here the same removal is named as the purpose of his appearing, and the verse says no sin is in him.
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