What Does Revelation 6:14 Mean in the King James?
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
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 sky does not merely move away: it is separated, and the same upheaval dislodges every landmark beneath it.
THE MEANING
This vision meets you where you trust the world’s arrangement to hold: heaven parts like a scroll, and mountains and islands shift from their places. Even what feels like the architecture of reality is not beyond upheaval.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that what feels foundational must remain fixed is undone here: mountains and islands themselves move.
THE ROOT
ἀπεχωρίσθη
apechōristhē
GROWS FROM
χωρίζω (chōrizō; stem χωριζ-)
To separate, part, or put asunder.
The verb rendered “departed” is a form of ἀποχωρίζω (apochōrizō), built on χωρίζω (chōrizō), “to separate.” Heaven is separated as a scroll is rolled, and every mountain and island is moved from its place: the language pairs separation above with displacement below.
ALSO GROWS
chōrizō: To separate, divide, or put asunder.
χωρίζω
This is the core verb beneath “departed,” bringing out the sense of separation in the sky’s movement.
chōris: Apart, separately, or without.
χωρίς
This related form makes the root’s spatial sense clear: what was together or in place is now apart.
THE PATTERN
When the created order is shaken, the heavens open and the earth’s fixed landmarks lose their places.
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.THE THREAD
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.“Put asunder” translates χωρίζω (chōrizō), the same root beneath “departed” here. English makes one phrase sound like a marriage prohibition and the other like sky movement; the Greek names both as separation.
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