What Does John 17:7 Mean in the King James?
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
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
They do not merely know what was given; they recognize its source.
THE MEANING
You see knowing reach beyond the gift to its origin: everything the Father has given Jesus comes from the Father. The giving is complete, and its source is clear in what Jesus carries. Here, knowing means recognizing where what is received comes from.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that what Jesus carries originates in him independently of the Father.
THE ROOT
ἔγνωκαν
egnōkan
GROWS FROM
γινώσκω (ginōskō), stem γνο-/γνω- (gno-/gnō-)
To know or recognize through encounter.
“known” in this verse is egnōkan. This knowing reaches beyond bare information to recognition through encounter. Here, what they recognize is the source of everything given to Jesus: the gift points back to its giver.
ALSO GROWS
gnōsis: knowledge
γνῶσις
It shares the knowing stem and shows that knowledge here is recognition of the giver’s source.
gnōstos: known, familiar
γνωστός
It carries the same knowing family into what is recognized or familiar, echoing the disciples’ recognition of where the gift comes from.
δέδωκας
dedōkas
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι (didōmi), stem δω-/δο- (dō-/do-)
To give or grant.
“given” in this verse is dedōkas. The verb presents the giving as complete, with the gift still in view. The verse places that completed giving beside a present truth: what Jesus has received is from the Father.
ALSO GROWS
dosis: giving, gift
δόσις
This branch keeps the act of giving visible, so the verse’s focus stays on the giver as well as what is given.
doma: gift
δόμα
The shared word family links the received gift to the giving that brought it forth.
THE PATTERN
What is received bears witness to its giver as its source.
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.THE THREAD
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.The next verse repeats the same knowing word: recognition of the Father’s source extends from what Jesus has received to Jesus himself. The gift and the one who carries it both point back to the Father.
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