What Does Acts 14:24 Mean?
And after they had gone through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
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
And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.THE KEY
The verse holds crossing and arrival together: progress includes the ground you pass through, not only the place where you land.
THE MEANING
You can be moving forward while still crossing one place; the arrival comes after that crossing. Pisidia and Pamphylia mark successive stages in one journey.
THE ROOT
διελθόντες
dielthontes
GROWS FROM
ἐρχ-
erch-
Go or come; movement toward or away from a point.
“gone through” in this verse is dielthontes. The word for “passed throughout” combines διά (dia, through) with the verb-family ἔρχομαι (erchomai, go or come). English compresses the crossing into a travel summary, while the Greek keeps the movement through an interval in view before naming the arrival.
ALSO GROWS
dierchomai: Go through, pass through
διέρχομαι
This is the verb behind “passed throughout”: it holds the crossing itself inside the journey.
eiserchomai: Enter, go in
εἰσέρχομαι
The same verbal base describes movement into a place, linking the crossing to arrival.
exerchomai: Go out, come out
ἐξέρχομαι
The same base also describes movement out from a place, showing how this verb-family traces movement across thresholds.
THE PATTERN
A journey advances through places crossed as well as places reached.
And Abram crossed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.Passing through the valley of weeping, they make it a spring. The early rain also wraps itself in blessings.But Philip was found at Azotus; and passing through, he brought the good news to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.THE THREAD
And when they had passed through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus.“Gone through” uses the same Greek verb as “passed throughout” here: διέρχομαι (dierchomai), to go through. The repeated root makes the crossing itself a continuing thread in the journey, before each arrival.
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