What Does Philippians 2:29 Mean in the King James?
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
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 verse makes a full welcome two things at once: receiving a person with gladness and recognizing their worth.
THE MEANING
You receive him in the Lord with complete gladness, and you regard people like him as worthy of honor. Welcome and esteem belong together here: he is not merely admitted; he is treated as valuable.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that someone can be welcomed in name while still being treated as insignificant.
THE ROOT
προσδέχεσθε
prosdechesthe
GROWS FROM
δέχομαι
dechomai
Receive, accept, welcome.
“receive” in this verse is prosdechesthe. The word carries the sense of welcoming someone into reception, not merely registering that they have arrived. Its root family links receiving with active acceptance, giving the verse’s gladness a concrete shape.
ALSO GROWS
dechomai: Receive, accept, welcome.
δέχομαι
This is the root’s basic act of taking someone in, which gives the verse’s welcome more depth than a polite greeting.
apodechomai: Welcome, accept, receive favorably.
ἀποδέχομαι
This related form makes the favorable welcome explicit: reception here carries glad acceptance.
ἐντίμους
entimous
GROWS FROM
τιμή
timē
Value, worth, honor.
The word rendered “reputation” names being valued and held in honor. Its word family also describes what is precious, so the verse’s esteem reaches beyond public opinion to the worth assigned to a person.
ALSO GROWS
timios: Precious, valuable, honorable.
τίμιος
This branch shows that honor is tied to recognizing what is valuable, not just to someone’s standing in others’ eyes.
atimazō: Dishonor, treat as having no honor.
ἀτιμάζω
Its opposite exposes what the verse resists: receiving a person while withholding the honor that recognizes their worth.
THE PATTERN
A community’s welcome becomes whole when it receives people gladly and treats them as worthy of honor.
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;Use hospitality one to another without grudging.THE THREAD
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;The same Greek noun τιμή (timē, value or honor) appears as “honour” in Romans 12:10. Philippians joins that recognition of worth to glad reception, showing that welcome includes how a person is valued.
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