What Does Revelation 21:21 Mean in the King James?
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
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 city’s threshold and its shared way are precious in themselves, with nothing opaque about the passage through.
THE MEANING
You are shown a city where every gate is a single pearl and the street is pure gold, clear as glass. Its beauty reaches the way in and the way through; access is not separate from the city’s abundance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that preciousness begins only after entry: the threshold and the shared way are precious too.
THE ROOT
πλατεῖα
plateia
GROWS FROM
πλατ-
plat-
Broad, wide, spread out.
The Greek word translated “street” belongs to the family of πλατύς (platys), meaning “broad” or “wide.” The city’s way is pictured not only as a place to walk but as spacious; that same word family can describe a heart made wide.
ALSO GROWS
platys: Broad, wide.
πλατύς
This adjective gives the street its sense of width and spaciousness.
platyno: To make broad, widen, enlarge.
πλατύνω
In 2 Corinthians 6:11, a form of this verb describes an enlarged heart, connecting the city’s spacious way with inward expansiveness.
THE PATTERN
The movement into wholeness opens constricted space into a large, accessible way.
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.THE THREAD
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.The Greek word translated “enlarged” is πεπλάτυνται (peplatyntai), from the same πλατ- root as “street” here. The spaciousness of the city’s way also names an inward widening of the heart.
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