What Does Acts 14:24 Mean in the King James?
And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
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 holds crossing and arrival together: progress includes the ground you pass through, not only the place where you land.
THE MEANING
You can be moving forward while still crossing one place; the arrival comes after that crossing. Pisidia and Pamphylia mark successive stages in one journey.
THE ROOT
διελθόντες
dielthontes
GROWS FROM
ἐρχ-
erch-
Go or come; movement toward or away from a point.
The word for “passed throughout” combines διά (dia, through) with the verb-family ἔρχομαι (erchomai, go or come). English compresses the crossing into a travel summary, while the Greek keeps the movement through an interval in view before naming the arrival.
ALSO GROWS
dierchomai: Go through, pass through
διέρχομαι
This is the verb behind “passed throughout”: it holds the crossing itself inside the journey.
eiserchomai: Enter, go in
εἰσέρχομαι
The same verbal base describes movement into a place, linking the crossing to arrival.
exerchomai: Go out, come out
ἐξέρχομαι
The same base also describes movement out from a place, showing how this verb-family traces movement across thresholds.
THE PATTERN
A journey advances through places crossed as well as places reached.
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cæsarea.THE THREAD
And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus:“Gone through” uses the same Greek verb as “passed throughout” here: διέρχομαι (dierchomai), to go through. The repeated root makes the crossing itself a continuing thread in the journey, before each arrival.
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