What Does Revelation 19:1 Mean in the King James?

And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:

Revelation 19:1 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

The cry places deliverance alongside God’s weight, honor, and power: rescue belongs to the very nature of the One praised.

THE MEANING

A great multitude voices what is true now: deliverance, weight, honor, and power belong to God. The praise gathers rescue with God’s substance and authority in one declaration.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that God’s power and God’s deliverance are separate is undone: both belong to God.

THE ROOT

σωτηρία

sōtēria

GROWS FROM

σωτηρ-

sōtēr-

Rescue and preservation; the word family also names the deliverer.

“Salvation” in this verse is sōtēria. This word family holds both deliverance and the deliverer who brings someone out. The multitude names deliverance as belonging to God, beside honor and power.

ALSO GROWS

sōtēr: deliverer, rescuer

σωτήρ

The related noun names the one who brings a person out of danger; here deliverance belongs to God.

sōtērios: bringing deliverance, saving

σωτήριος

This branch describes what brings rescue, keeping the verse’s deliverance concrete and active.

δόξα

doxa

GROWS FROM

δοξ-

dox-

Esteem and reputation; here, weight, the substance and consequence that belongs to God.

The verse’s glory carries weight: what has substance and consequence. Its word family also speaks of giving glory and being held in honor, so God’s weight draws recognition.

ALSO GROWS

doxazō: glorify, honor

δοξάζω

This related verb describes giving glory, joining the verse’s weight to the response of praise.

endoxos: esteemed, glorious

ἔνδοξος

This related adjective describes what is held in honor, echoing the recognition voiced by the multitude.

δύναμις

dynamis

GROWS FROM

δυνα-

dyna-

Ability, capacity; being able to act.

Power here is capacity in action, not an empty title. The related words describe being able and possessing strength, giving the verse’s praise a sense of active authority.

ALSO GROWS

dynamai: be able, can

δύναμαι

This verb makes the root’s capacity explicit: power means the ability to act.

dynatos: able, strong, powerful

δυνατός

This adjective describes one who possesses that capacity, fitting the verse’s naming of God’s power.

THE PATTERN

Praise reveals the source by naming deliverance and authority as belonging to God.

The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Exodus 15:2 · KJVThe verse joins strength and deliverance to the LORD, as Revelation’s praise does.

God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

Psalm 62:11 · KJVPower is declared to belong to God, matching Revelation’s praise of power as God’s own.

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Romans 11:36 · KJVAll things and glory are named in relation to God, echoing the verse’s declaration of what belongs to God.

THE THREAD

And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

Revelation 7:10 · KJV

The same Greek word for deliverance appears in both verses: deliverance belongs to God and the Lamb. Here it stands beside weight, honor, and power, showing the fullness gathered into that cry.

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