What Does Acts 13:51 Mean in the King James?
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
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 dust is left in the city that rejects them; its refusal does not travel with the message into Iconium.
THE MEANING
In the face of refusal, the encounter can be marked and left behind; its dust does not have to cling to the next step. The journey continues toward another place.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie undone is that rejection must end the journey or keep the rejected person rooted at the place of refusal.
THE ROOT
ἐκτινάσσω
ektinassō
GROWS FROM
τινάσσω
tinassō
To shake or swing; the Greek verb stem at the heart of “shake off.”
“shook off” in this verse is ektinassō. The verb here is ἐκτινάσσω (ektinassō, shake out or off): ek- (“out”) joins τινάσσω (tinassō, shake or swing). The action is more than departure; what clings as dust is deliberately shaken away before the travelers move on.
ALSO GROWS
tinassō: To shake or swing.
τινάσσω
The simple verb supplies the motion inside the compound used in this verse.
ektinassō: To shake out or off.
ἐκτινάσσω
The prefix ek- (“out”) gives the shaking an outward direction: the dust is left behind as the travelers continue.
THE PATTERN
A refused message is marked by an outward gesture, then its bearers leave without carrying the encounter into the next place.
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.THE THREAD
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.Matthew uses the same Greek verb, ἐκτινάσσω (ektinassō, shake out or off), as Acts 13:51. There the instruction becomes an enacted gesture: the dust is shaken away, and the travelers continue to Iconium.
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