What Does Matthew 24:21 Mean in the King James?
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
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 θλῖψις (thlipsis, pressure or distress) makes “tribulation” felt as pressure whose scale reaches beyond every comparison.
THE MEANING
This verse puts you face to face with suffering at a scale that defeats ordinary comparison. It measures that pressure against the whole span of the world and declares no moment before or after its equal.
THE ROOT
θλῖψις
thlipsis
GROWS FROM
θλιβ-
Greek word-family stem
to press, squeeze, or afflict
The Greek noun θλῖψις (thlipsis, pressure or distress) holds the felt mechanism inside “tribulation”: pressure brought to bear. The verse intensifies that pressure and measures its scale against the world’s beginning, present, and future.
ALSO GROWS
thlibō: to press, squeeze, or afflict
θλίβω
This verb shows the physical action beneath the noun for distress.
thlibomenoi: being pressed or afflicted
θλιβόμενοι
In 2 Corinthians 4:8, this form uses the same word-family for people under pressure, opening a distinction between being pressed and being confined.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names extreme suffering as pressure and measures it against a span larger than one moment.
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;THE THREAD
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;The Greek θλιβόμενοι (thlibomenoi, being pressed) shares its word-family with θλῖψις (thlipsis, pressure or distress). Then στενοχωρούμενοι (stenochōroumenoi, cramped or confined) names something distinct: pressure is real, but it is not itself the same word as being hemmed into narrowness.
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