What Does Acts 13:4 Mean in the King James?
So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
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 force that sends them outward is the Breath itself: life-giving presence becomes movement.
THE MEANING
The Set-Apart Breath sends people outward, and its sending takes shape in a real route from Seleucia across the sea to Cyprus. The movement is concrete: departure, sailing, arrival.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that every meaningful move must originate in your own will: the sending begins in the Breath, while the travelers carry it into action.
THE ROOT
ἁγίου πνεύματος
hagiou pneumatos
GROWS FROM
πνευ-
pneu-
Breathe, blow; breath or a moving current of air.
“Holy Ghost” in this verse is hagiou pneumatos. The Greek πνεῦμα (pneuma) grows from πνέω (pneō), to breathe or blow, holding breath, wind, and animating spirit together. The source of this mission is living breath in motion, carrying people outward.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: To breathe or blow.
πνέω
This verb lets the verse’s sending carry the force of breath moving through the world.
pnoē: Breath or a blowing wind.
πνοή
It echoes the same moving air that animates life and, here, directs a journey.
ἐκπεμφθέντες
ekpemphthentes
GROWS FROM
πεμπ-
pemp-
Send, dispatch.
“sent forth” in this verse is ekpemphthentes. The verb is passive: they are sent out, rather than initiating the mission at its point of departure. Its prefix ἐκ (ek), “out,” gives the sending an outward direction that becomes visible in their route and voyage.
ALSO GROWS
pempō: To send or dispatch.
πέμπω
It names the sending that sets their movement in motion.
ekpempō: To send out or dispatch away.
ἐκπέμπω
This compound gives the sending an outward direction, which the voyage to Cyprus makes concrete.
THE PATTERN
The Breath that gives or fills life becomes visible through movement and action.
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi-ezer was gathered after him.And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,THE THREAD
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.Acts 1:8 names the same πνεῦμα (pneuma, breath) as the source of witness, then traces its movement from Jerusalem toward the earth’s edge. The voyage to Cyprus is one visible stretch of that breath-driven movement.
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