What Does John 16:22 Mean in the King James?
And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
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 word translated “taketh” pictures someone lifting joy away, and the verse says no one can lift it from you.
THE MEANING
Your sorrow is real now, but it is not the final truth about you. The promise of seeing again carries your heart toward joy that no other person can remove.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that present sorrow must be permanent, or that another person has the final claim over your joy.
THE ROOT
αἴρει
airei
GROWS FROM
αἴρω
to lift, raise, take up, carry, or remove
The verb behind “taketh” includes the sense of lifting something away. The promise is that no one can lift this joy out of you.
ALSO GROWS
airō: to lift, raise, take up, carry, or remove
αἴρω
This is the verb used in the verse: no one lifts the joy away from you.
epairō: to lift up or raise
ἐπαίρω
This related compound keeps the image of raising visible: the word family can describe something being lifted, while the verse says your joy cannot be.
THE PATTERN
Sorrow is real in the present, yet renewed presence turns it toward joy that outlasts the moment.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.THE THREAD
Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.The same Greek words, λύπη (lypē, sorrow) and χαρά (chara, joy), appear in both verses. Here sorrow is explicitly turned into joy; verse 22 anchors that turning in seeing again and says no one can lift the joy away.
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