What Does Acts 15:30 Mean in the King James?
So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:
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 message becomes shared when it is handed from its carriers to the gathered multitude.
THE MEANING
The verse shows a message moving from the hands of its bearers into the reach of a gathered people. Its delivery places the message before the community, where they can receive it together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A message meant for a community belongs only to the few who carry it.
THE ROOT
ἐπέδωκαν
epedōkan
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
didōmi
to give, grant, or hand over
The verb translated “delivered” is a form of ἐπιδίδωμι, built on δίδωμι: to give over. The letter passes into the gathered people’s reach, becoming something they can receive together.
ALSO GROWS
apodidōmi: to give back, render, or repay
ἀποδίδωμι
This branch shows the root’s sense of transferring something into another’s hands.
paradidōmi: to hand over or deliver
παραδίδωμι
This branch makes explicit the passing of something entrusted from one person to another.
συναγαγόντες
synagagontes
GROWS FROM
ἄγω
agō
to lead or bring
“gathered” in this verse is synagagontes. The word for gathering joins συν-, “together,” with ἄγω, “bring.” The multitude is brought together into the space where the letter is handed over.
ALSO GROWS
synagōgē: a gathering or assembly
συναγωγή
The same bring-together root names an assembly: people gathered into one place.
apagōgē: a leading away or departure
ἀπαγωγή
This branch retains the root’s movement of leading, showing how ἄγω carries the sense of bringing people from one place or condition to another.
THE PATTERN
A message entrusted to a gathered people is received in common.
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.THE THREAD
Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.The letter handed to the gathered people here is read in the next verse, and its reception opens into rejoicing. Delivery reaches its purpose as the community receives the words.
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