What Does Acts 17:33 Mean in the King James?
So Paul departed from among them.
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 Greek pictures Paul going out from the center of the gathering after its responses split.
THE MEANING
A conversation in your life can reach a point where the shared space ends while each response remains distinct. Departure marks a threshold; it leaves the encounter’s different responses standing.
THE ROOT
ἐξῆλθεν
exēlthen
GROWS FROM
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
To come or go; to move toward or away from a place.
Ἔρχομαι (erchomai, come or go) supplies the movement; ἐξ- (ex-, out) turns it outward. Then ἐκ μέσου (ek mesou, out of the middle) makes the image precise: Paul leaves the group’s center, a spatial detail compressed by “departed.”
ALSO GROWS
eiserchomai: Enter, come in.
εἰσέρχομαι
The prefix εἰς- (eis-, into) directs the same movement inward, while the verb here carries it outward.
proserchomai: Approach, come near.
προσέρχομαι
The prefix πρός- (pros-, toward) shows how the root’s direction changes with its prefix.
parerchomai: Pass by, pass away.
παρέρχομαι
The prefix παρά- (para-, beside or past) turns the same movement into passing alongside or beyond.
THE PATTERN
Going out of a gathering marks a threshold where its participants carry distinct responses forward.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.THE THREAD
Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.John uses the same Greek verb form, ἐξῆλθεν (exēlthen, went out), for Jesus leaving the temple. In both verses, the movement takes someone out of a gathering, though the circumstances surrounding each departure differ.
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