What Does Acts 11:30 Mean in the King James?
Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
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 Greek word for “sent” belongs to the same family as “apostle”: the gift travels as a sending, carried by people the community entrusts.
THE MEANING
Shared care takes tangible form as a gift moves through trusted hands toward people who need it. The provision has a route, and the people carrying it are part of how the community’s care reaches its destination.
THE ROOT
ἀπέστειλαν
apésteilan
GROWS FROM
ἀποστέλλω (apostellō), from ἀπό (apo, away) + στέλλω (stellō, send or dispatch)
To send out or dispatch.
The Greek verb belongs to the same word-family as the sent person, ἀπόστολος (apóstolos), and the sending or commission, ἀποστολή (apostolē). The transfer here is also a sending: provision moves with people entrusted to carry it.
ALSO GROWS
apóstolos: A sent one; an envoy.
ἀπόστολος
The word names a person by the act of being sent, echoing the role Barnabas and Saul have as they carry the gift.
apostolē: A sending; a commission.
ἀποστολή
It shows how sending can become an entrusted task, giving the gift’s journey a human purpose and direction.
THE PATTERN
Care becomes material when resources move from available hands toward people who need them.
But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.THE THREAD
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;Hebrews calls Jesus ἀπόστολος (apóstolos, “sent one”), from the same word-family as “sent” in this verse. That shared root lets this ordinary delivery appear as a real act of sending, carried by people entrusted with the task.
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