What Does John 16:6 Mean in the King James?
But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
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
Sorrow is not merely touching the heart here; it has filled it.
THE MEANING
When words bring loss into view, sorrow can fill your heart. This verse names that fullness plainly: grief occupies the inner life in this moment.
THE ROOT
πεπλήρωκεν
peplērōken
GROWS FROM
πληρ- (plēr-), the stem of πληρόω (plēroō)
To fill, make full.
“filled” in this verse is peplērōken. The verb πληρόω (plēroō, “to fill”) makes sorrow the thing occupying the heart, not merely a feeling that brushes past it. Its form presents that filling as having happened and still shaping the present.
ALSO GROWS
plērēs: Full; having reached fullness.
πλήρης
This branch shows fullness as a state: sorrow has taken up the heart’s space.
plērōma: That which fills; fullness.
πλήρωμα
This branch makes visible the shared image beneath “filled”: the heart has become full of sorrow.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names the heart through the sorrow or joy it holds; what fills it gives the present its felt shape.
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.THE THREAD
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.The Greek root πληρ- (plēr-, “fill”) appears again in “your joy may be full.” Here sorrow fills the heart; there, joy does, fullness names what occupies the heart, not a permanent condition.
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