What Does John 1:7 Mean?

“The same”

the he (she or it), i.e., this or that (often with article repeated)

“came”

to come or go (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

“for”

to or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases

“a witness”

evidence given (judicially or genitive case)

“that”

in order that (denoting the purpose or the result)

“bear witness”

to be a witness, i.e., testify (literally or figuratively)

“of”

properly, through (all over), i.e., around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time (with the genitive cas

the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)

“the Light”

luminousness (in the widest application, natural or artificial, abstract or concrete, literal or figurative)

“that”

in order that (denoting the purpose or the result)

“all”

all, any, every, the whole

“might believe”

to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e., credit; by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to ch

“men through”

through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional)

“him”

the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons