What Does Acts 11:14 Mean?
Who will speak to you words by which you and all your house shall be delivered.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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
Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.THE KEY
Here, being saved means being brought through by words whose reach extends to an entire household.
THE MEANING
Deliverance comes through words spoken to you, and their reach includes your whole household. The verse holds the individual and the household together within that promise.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that deliverance concerns only the person who first hears the message.
THE ROOT
σωθήσῃ
sōthēsē
GROWS FROM
σωζ-
The Greek verb stem of σώζω (sōzō): rescue, preserve, or bring safely through.
“delivered” in this verse is sōthēsē. The word translated “saved” carries the sense of being brought through into safety. Its word family includes both deliverance and safe passage, so the verse presents the spoken message as a means by which that deliverance reaches the whole household.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēria: Deliverance, safety
σωτηρία
This noun names the deliverance carried by the verb in the verse.
sōtēr: Deliverer, rescuer
σωτήρ
The related name centers the one who brings someone to safety.
diasōzō: Bring safely through
διασῴζω
This related verb makes the passage-through sense explicit: deliverance carries someone through danger.
THE PATTERN
A spoken word carries a purpose that can reach beyond its first hearer.
He sends his word and heals them, and slips them free from their pits.So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to me empty, but shall do what I delight in, and shall break through in the thing to which I sent it.And they said, Lean your weight on the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, and you will be delivered, you and your house.THE THREAD
And they said, Lean your weight on the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, and you will be delivered, you and your house.Acts 16:31 uses the same Greek root, σωζ- (sōz-, deliver or bring safely through), for “saved.” The shared root appears beside “thy house” in both verses, linking deliverance with a reach that includes the household.
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