What Does Philemon 1:22 Mean in the King James?
But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto 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
His hoped-for return is not claimed as something owed; the Greek names it as a favor granted through their prayers.
THE MEANING
You can make room for an encounter before you know how it will arrive. Here, the hoped-for return is received as favor through the prayers of others, while a place is prepared to welcome it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A return is not always secured by control or owed by entitlement; here it is received as favor carried through others’ prayers.
THE ROOT
χαρισθήσομαι
charisthēsomai
GROWS FROM
χαρίζομαι
charizomai
To grant freely as a favor; the verb is built on χάρις (charis), favor.
The word translated “given” carries the sense of being granted as a favor. English can make the return sound like a simple transfer, while the Greek holds it together with favor and release.
ALSO GROWS
charis: Favor or goodwill freely shown.
χάρις
This is the word-family beneath “given”: the hoped-for visit is described in the language of favor.
charizomai: To grant freely, or to release what is owed; in Luke 7:42, the KJV renders it “frankly forgave.”
χαρίζομαι
The same verb can describe releasing a debt, linking a gift received with the letting go of a claim.
charisma: A gift or freely given endowment from the same favor-family.
χάρισμα
This branch makes visible the gift already contained in the wording of the anticipated return.
ξενίαν
xenian
GROWS FROM
ξένος
xenos
A stranger, guest, or visitor.
The word for lodging belongs to the guest-and-stranger family: the place is defined by the person being welcomed. The prepared room and the hoped-for arrival are two sides of receiving someone.
ALSO GROWS
xenos: A stranger or guest.
ξένος
The lodging is not just a place to stay; it is room made for someone arriving from outside.
philoxenia: Hospitality, literally the welcoming of a stranger.
φιλοξενία
This related word frames preparing a place as an act of welcome toward the arriving guest.
THE PATTERN
Prayer can hold a hoped-for meeting open while welcome makes room for the arrival.
That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:THE THREAD
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?“Freely give” translates χαρίσεται (charisetai, will grant freely), from χαρίζομαι (charizomai, to grant as favor), the same Greek verb-family behind “I shall be given.” The shared root lets you hear the hoped-for visit as favor received, rather than a claim to what is owed.
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