What Does Acts 11:27 Mean in the King James?
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
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 verse makes prophecy travel: its speakers cross from Jerusalem to Antioch before their message is even stated.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks now as a movement of voiced insight: prophets come from Jerusalem to Antioch. Yerushalayim carries shalom, wholeness, in its name, so the line pictures speech setting out from wholeness and arriving elsewhere before its message is stated.
THE ROOT
προφῆται
prophētai
GROWS FROM
φημί
phēmi
To say, speak, or make something known.
“prophets” in this verse is prophētai. The Greek title προφήτης (prophētēs) is formed with pro- and phēmi, keeping speech audible inside the word. Here the speakers themselves cross from one city to another, so prophecy appears as voiced disclosure in motion.
ALSO GROWS
prophēteuō: To prophesy; to speak prophetically.
προφητεύω
This verb makes the speaking activity within the title explicit.
prophēteia: Prophecy; prophetic speech.
προφητεία
The word for the message shares the same family, joining the arriving speakers with the disclosure they voice.
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שָׁלֵם
shalem
Wholeness, completeness.
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim carries shalom, wholeness, in its name. The route begins in a place whose name holds wholeness, letting the verse’s movement suggest wholeness carried outward through voices.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being.
שָׁלוֹם
This branch makes the nature carried in Jerusalem’s name audible as wholeness.
shalem: Whole, complete.
שָׁלֵם
This form shares the ש-ל-ם root and brings completeness into the place-name’s journey.
THE PATTERN
A message entrusted to prophetic voices moves outward and becomes available within a community.
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.THE THREAD
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.The Greek word προφῆται (prophētai, prophets) appears again with Antioch named. Prophetic voices are pictured first as arriving and then as present among the assembly, opening the journey into a shared voice.
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