What Does Revelation 7:12 Mean in the King James?
Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. 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
Thanksgiving and favor share one Greek root, so the praise names gratitude as an answer to what is received as favor.
THE MEANING
The verse gathers blessing, weight, wisdom, thanksgiving, honour, power, and might and names them as belonging to God. The reader meets all these qualities gathered and directed toward God, with “Amen” at the beginning and end holding the declaration firm.
THE ROOT
εὐχαριστία
eucharistia
GROWS FROM
χαρ-
Favor, gracious giving.
English can make thanksgiving sound like a separate possession among many. Its Greek family joins thanking to favor: gratitude is voiced as acknowledgment of favor, not as an independent achievement.
ALSO GROWS
charis: Favor, gracious goodwill.
χάρις
This is the favor at the heart of the word for thanksgiving, revealing gratitude as a response to what is received.
eucharisteō: Give thanks.
εὐχαριστέω
This verb carries the same χαρ- family into the act of thanking.
charizomai: Grant freely, show favor.
χαρίζομαι
This branch shows favor as something given, deepening the connection between receiving and giving thanks.
אמן
ʾamen
GROWS FROM
אמן
Be firm, reliable, established.
The Greek text repeats ἀμήν (amēn, “Amen”) at the opening and close; it carries the Hebrew אמן (ʾamen, “firm, established”). Its placement brackets the praise as an affirmed declaration.
ALSO GROWS
emunah: Steadfastness, trust.
אֱמוּנָה
This branch carries firmness into trust, showing the settled quality behind the repeated Amen.
ne'eman: Reliable, trustworthy.
נֶאֱמָן
This word shares the root’s consonants and names what is proven steady, echoing the declaration’s firm frame.
εὐλογία
eulogia
GROWS FROM
λογ-
Speech, saying, word.
“Blessing” in this Greek family is also well-speaking. The verse’s first item names the act the surrounding list performs: speaking God’s worth aloud.
ALSO GROWS
logos: Word, message, account.
λόγος
This branch makes the speech inside blessing visible.
eulogeō: Speak well of, bless.
εὐλογέω
This verb shares the λογ- family and shows blessing as speech directed toward its recipient.
THE PATTERN
Praise gathers every form of worth and capacity into one declaration addressed to God.
Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.THE THREAD
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.The thanksgiving here is εὐχαριστία (eucharistia, “thanksgiving”), from the χαρ- family represented by χάρις (charis, “favor”). Second Corinthians uses χάρις (charis) in a line rendered “Thanks be unto God,” revealing gratitude and favor as branches of the same Greek family.
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