What Does Revelation 6:14 Mean?
And the heaven parts like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island are moved from their places.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.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.
“parts” in this verse is apechōristhē. 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.
All the host of heaven wastes away, and the heavens are rolled up like a scroll. All their host withers, as a leaf falls from the vine, as a fig drops from the fig tree.whose voice then shook the earth, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”THE THREAD
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has yoked together, let no one pull apart.“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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