What Does 1 Corinthians 16:19 Mean in the King James?
The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
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 word names both the assemblies across Asia and the gathering in Aquila and Priscilla’s house: an assembly is the people gathered, wherever they meet.
THE MEANING
You are met by greetings from assemblies across Asia and from Aquila and Priscilla’s household gathering, all joined in the Lord. A wide community and a gathering around one household belong to the same living network of welcome.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This dissolves the belief that a gathering in a home is too small or private to count as an assembly: the verse names it with the same word used for the assemblies of Asia.
THE ROOT
ἐκκλησία
ekklēsia
GROWS FROM
καλέω
kaleō
to call or summon
“churches / church” in this verse is ekklēsia. The Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsia, assembly) belongs to the call-and-summon family of καλέω (kaleō, to call). That family keeps attention on the people gathered: the verse uses the same assembly word for regional groups and for the gathering in a home.
ALSO GROWS
klēsis: calling, invitation
κλῆσις
This related word keeps the sense of a summons in view: an assembly is people gathered into a shared relation.
klētos: called, invited
κλητός
The same word family describes people as called; here, the assembly is recognized in the people who gather, not in a particular venue.
οἶκος
oikos
GROWS FROM
οἰκ-
oik-
dwelling, household
The Greek οἶκος (oikos, house or household) carries both the place and the life within it. The verse places a household gathering beside the assemblies of Asia, holding intimate and regional community together.
ALSO GROWS
oikia: house, household
οἰκία
This related word also names a home or household, keeping the gathering rooted in an inhabited place.
oikeō: dwell, live in
οἰκέω
The dwelling family of words points to a house as a lived-in setting, where an assembly can gather.
THE PATTERN
A wider people becomes tangible through local households and greetings that carry welcome between them.
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.THE THREAD
Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.Romans uses the same Greek word, ἐκκλησία (ekklēsia, assembly), for a gathering in a house. The repeated house-and-assembly language makes clear that household gathering belongs to the wider life of the assembly.
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