What Does Revelation 7:16 Mean in the King James?
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
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
Here, deliverance is measured by what no longer consumes the body: hunger, thirst, sun, and burning heat.
THE MEANING
This verse gives you a bodily measure of wholeness: hunger and thirst cease, and the sun and burning heat no longer reach the exposed. The relief named here includes the body’s real needs and vulnerability.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that divine care comforts only the inward life while bodily need and exposure remain untouched.
THE ROOT
καῦμα
kauma
GROWS FROM
καυ-
kau-
to burn, kindle
The English “heat” can sound ambient, but καῦμα (kauma) means burning heat: what no longer reaches these people is what scorches them. The same word family names scorching elsewhere in Revelation, making this verse’s relief the inverse of that harm.
ALSO GROWS
kaiō: to burn, kindle
καίω
This verb carries the burning action at the heart of the heat named here.
kaumatizō: to scorch, burn with heat
καυματίζω
In Revelation 16:9, this same word family describes people being scorched with great heat, the harm this verse says no longer falls on them.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness is pictured as both the meeting of bodily need and the removal of what harms the body.
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.THE THREAD
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.This verse echoes Isaiah’s wording: no hunger or thirst, and no heat or sun striking the exposed. Isaiah continues with a guide leading to springs of water, so the picture holds both the end of harm and the presence of provision.
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