What Does Revelation 1:7 Mean in the King James?
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
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 unveiling does not erase the wound: the one every eye sees coming is the one they pierced.
THE MEANING
The verse holds the reader within a world-wide unveiling: the one coming with clouds is the one who is pierced, and every eye sees him. The sight gathers recognition and lament together; even the earth’s families are drawn into the response. “Even so, Amen” gives the vision final assent.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The coming one can be separated from the pierced one; this verse holds them together and makes the wound part of the universal unveiling.
THE ROOT
ἐξεκέντησαν
exekentēsan
GROWS FROM
κεντέω
To prick or stab; with ἐκ-, to pierce through.
The Greek verb for “pierced” is built on κεντέω, “to prick, stab.” The same verb appears in John 19:37, so the coming figure remains identified by the wound as he is revealed.
ALSO GROWS
ként ron: Point, goad, sting
κέντρον
This word names the sharp point associated with the verb’s piercing, making the wound a concrete penetration.
ekkentéō: Pierce through
ἐκκεντέω
This is the verse’s verb in its dictionary form and the same word used in John 19:37.
κόψονται
kópsontai
GROWS FROM
κόπτω
To cut or strike; in mourning, to beat the breast.
The verb rendered “wail” comes from a word for striking or cutting; its use in lament carries the body’s beating of the breast. The earth’s response is expressed as embodied, public grief.
ALSO GROWS
kopetós: Lamentation, beating of the breast
κοπετός
This related word makes the bodily action within mourning explicit.
ekkóptō: Cut out or cut off
ἐκκόπτω
This compound preserves the root’s concrete sense of cutting.
ὄψεται
ópsetai
GROWS FROM
ὁράω
To see, look upon, perceive.
The form translated “see” belongs to ὁράω, a word that can carry perception as well as sight. Every eye is brought into direct view of the unveiled one, rather than left with only a report about him.
ALSO GROWS
hórasis: Sight, vision
ὅρασις
This noun names the faculty or experience of seeing that the verse makes universal.
horatós: Visible, seen
ὁρατός
This related form describes what can be seen; here the pierced one is no longer hidden from view.
THE PATTERN
The pierced one is brought into view, and his unveiling draws recognition and mourning into the open.
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.THE THREAD
And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.John uses the same Greek verb, ἐκκεντέω, for “pierced.” Revelation carries that very wound into the scene of universal sight: the one who comes is still identified by the piercing.
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