What Does Acts 13:14 Mean in the King James?
But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
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 word for “synagogue” carries the sense of bringing people together, so this is an arrival into shared space, not merely a stop on the road.
THE MEANING
You arrive in new places, and a gathered room can make your arrival part of something shared. Here, you enter among others and sit before the word is spoken: presence comes before understanding.
THE ROOT
συναγωγή
synagōgē
GROWS FROM
ἄγω
ἄγω (agō) means “lead” or “bring.”
The word συναγωγή (synagōgē) joins σύν (syn, “together”) to this root: a synagogue is a bringing together. English names the place, while the Greek also holds the action of people being brought into one gathering.
ALSO GROWS
agō: lead, bring
ἄγω
This is the root verb within συναγωγή, revealing the movement contained in the name of the gathering place.
synagō: gather, bring together
συνάγω
The verb combines the same root with σύν (syn, “together”), making explicit the shared movement that συναγωγή names.
episynagōgē: gathering together, assembly
ἐπισυναγωγή
This related word in Hebrews 10:25 carries the same gathering root, connecting this seated assembly with the recurring act of coming together.
THE PATTERN
A people become a listening assembly by gathering in a shared place and taking their place there.
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.THE THREAD
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.“Assembling” comes from ἐπισυναγωγή (episynagōgē), which shares the gathering root in συναγωγή (synagōgē). The same word-family links the people sitting in the synagogue with the continuing act of gathering together.
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