What Does Revelation 18:4 Mean in the King James?
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
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 voice names complicity as the bridge between another’s missing and the blows you come to receive.
THE MEANING
A voice calls you out of a shared life whose missing draws you into its consequences. The warning links participation in her sins with receiving her plagues: what you share in can become what you bear.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This dissolves the belief that you can take part in a destructive pattern and remain untouched by what it produces.
THE ROOT
συγκοινωνήσητε
synkoinōnēsēte
GROWS FROM
κοινων-
koinōn-
share in common; participate with
“partakers” in this verse is synkoinōnēsēte. The word names becoming a co-sharer in her actions. Its συν- (syn-, with) element makes the warning a sequence: shared missing, then shared consequence.
ALSO GROWS
koinōnia: sharing in common
κοινωνία
It shows that “partakers” carries the sense of entering into something together.
koinōnos: partner; participant
κοινωνός
This branch presents the partaker as a partner in what is being shared, not merely a nearby observer.
ἁμαρτίαις
hamartiais
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτ-
hamart-
miss; fail to reach
“sins” in this verse is hamartiais. The word’s root carries the sense of missing or failing to reach. The verse exposes the shared acts as a pattern of missing that can draw its participants into the blows that follow.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: to miss; to fail
ἁμαρτάνω
The verb makes the root’s action visible: a miss is something enacted, not only a label.
hamartōlos: one who misses; sinner
ἁμαρτωλός
This branch shows how the root can describe a person shaped by the pattern of missing.
THE PATTERN
Leaving a destructive pattern interrupts participation in the consequences it carries.
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,THE THREAD
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,Both verses use ἐξέρχομαι (exerchomai, come out) in the same command form. The shared verb makes the departure itself a recurring hinge: leaving breaks participation before its consequences are received.
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