What Does Romans 15:22 Mean in the King James?
For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.
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 verb behind “hindered” evokes cutting into a route, so an interrupted arrival does not by itself mean the desire to come is gone.
THE MEANING
A desire to reach another person can be real while the way remains blocked. Delay names an interruption in arrival; by itself, it does not say the intention has vanished.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A delay in reaching someone does not by itself prove that the desire to be with them is absent.
THE ROOT
ἐνεκοπτόμην
enekoptomēn
GROWS FROM
κόπτω
koptō
to cut, strike, or beat
“hindered” in this verse is enekoptomēn. The verb ἐγκόπτω (enkoptō), “to impede or hinder,” is built from κόπτω (koptō), “to cut or strike.” The cutting image makes the obstruction feel like an interruption in the way toward arrival, rather than an absence of desire.
ALSO GROWS
enkoptō: to cut into; impede or hinder
ἐγκόπτω
This is the verb in the verse: the route toward someone is interrupted.
ekkoptō: to cut out, cut off, or cut down
ἐκκόπτω
The same root can describe something being cut off, revealing the force behind an impeded way.
koptō: to strike or beat; also to lament
κόπτω
The root’s sense of striking shows how the word carries an image of force meeting movement.
THE PATTERN
Intended movement can be interrupted before it reaches its destination.
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.THE THREAD
Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.This verse uses the same verb for a wish to come that meets a hindrance. The parallel makes the distinction plain: obstruction names what stands in the way of arrival, not necessarily the absence of desire.
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