What Does Acts 13:37 Mean in the King James?
But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
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 reveals resurrection as a life over which decay has no claim.
THE MEANING
Here, God’s raising places the one raised beyond bodily decay’s reach. For you now, the verse presents resurrection as life whose final shape is not dictated by what decays.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that bodily death and decay have final authority over the one God raises.
THE ROOT
διαφθορά
diaphthora
GROWS FROM
φθείρω
phtheirō
to destroy, corrupt, or waste away
Here διαφθορά (diaphthora, decay or corruption) carries the concrete sense of bodily wasting and ruin. Its word family describes destruction and decay, so the verse’s claim reaches the body’s process of decay.
ALSO GROWS
phthora: decay, corruption, destruction
φθορά
This related noun names the wasting away that the raised one does not undergo.
diaphtheirō: to destroy, corrupt, or ruin
διαφθείρω
The related verb shows the root’s force as a process of deterioration and destruction.
ἤγειρεν
ēgeiren
GROWS FROM
ἐγερ-
eger-
to wake, rouse, or raise
“raised” in this verse is ēgeiren. The verb evokes waking and rousing into life. Beside the word for decay, God’s raising brings life into wakefulness without passing into ruin.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: to wake, rouse, or raise
ἐγείρω
This is the verb family behind “raised,” carrying the sense of awakening into life.
egersis: rising, resurrection
ἔγερσις
This related noun makes the awakening sense explicit as a rising from the dead.
THE PATTERN
God’s raising carries life through death beyond decay’s claim.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:THE THREAD
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.Acts 2:31 uses the same Greek noun διαφθορά (diaphthora, decay or corruption), binding the verses through the word itself. It sets that word beside “resurrection,” making the claim precise: the one raised does not pass into decay.
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