What Does Romans 8:16 Mean in the King James?
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
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 same Greek word, πνεῦμα (pneuma, breath), names both God’s Spirit and our spirit, so the verse describes their witness as shared within.
THE MEANING
God’s breath bears witness alongside your breath that you belong among God’s children. The verse places this recognition in the meeting of God’s breath and the inward life named as yours.
THE ROOT
πνεῦμα
pneuma
GROWS FROM
πνέω
pneō
To blow or breathe.
“Spirit / spirit” in this verse is pneuma. The Greek uses πνεῦμα (pneuma, breath) twice: once for God’s Spirit and once for our spirit. Its word family carries the senses of breath, wind, and spirit together, letting the verse’s shared witness resonate with the movement of breath.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: To blow; to breathe.
πνέω
This verb is the source of the noun’s word family, revealing the movement of air within the sense of pneuma.
pnoē: Breath; blowing; wind.
πνοή
Acts 2:2 uses this related word for a rushing wind, showing how the same family reaches from breath to wind.
συμμαρτυρεῖ
symmartyrei
GROWS FROM
μαρτυρέω
martyreō
To bear witness or testify.
“Beareth witness with” in this verse is symmartyrei. The verb includes συν- (syn, with), so its sense is to testify together. The wording presents the witness as shared between God’s Spirit and our spirit.
ALSO GROWS
martys: Witness.
μάρτυς
The witness is the one who attests to what is true, giving the verse’s testimony a concrete human sense.
martyria: Testimony; witness.
μαρτυρία
This related noun names the testimony itself, illuminating the verse’s act of bearing witness.
THE PATTERN
God’s breath gives life and makes belonging inwardly known.
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.THE THREAD
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.The Greek uses πνεῦμα (pneuma, breath) for both the human spirit and the Spirit of God, as Romans 8:16 does. That shared word opens the verse’s image of divine witness alongside the inward life within you.
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