What Does Acts 18:11 Mean in the King James?
And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God 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 verb behind “continued” pictures taking a settled place, so the word is taught from within a community rather than delivered in passing.
THE MEANING
God’s word is taught among people through a presence that lasts. The verse holds the message and its transmission together: what is spoken is given room to be heard over time.
THE ROOT
λόγον
logon
GROWS FROM
λογ-
log-
speech, saying, or account
The word translated “word” belongs to a family that also speaks of sayings and reckoning. Here it is not a stray utterance: it is a coherent message being taught among people.
ALSO GROWS
logion: saying, oracle
λόγιον
This branch links the word-family to a spoken message or declaration.
logizomai: reckon, account, consider
λογίζομαι
The shared family also carries the sense of content that can be considered or accounted for, not merely heard as sound.
ἐκάθισεν
ekathisen
GROWS FROM
καθιζ-
kathiz-
to sit down, settle
The verb rendered “continued” carries the picture of sitting or settling in a place. That gives the teaching a setting of durable presence: the message is shared from among the people over time.
ALSO GROWS
kathisma: seat, place to sit
κάθισμα
The related noun makes the verb’s settled, seated image concrete.
kathisis: sitting, sitting down
κάθισις
This names the act behind the settled presence expressed by the verse’s verb.
διδάσκων
didaskōn
GROWS FROM
διδακ-
didak-
to teach or instruct
The verse pairs the word itself with the act of teaching it. The same family names both instruction and what is taught, showing the message as something passed among people, not left as an isolated saying.
ALSO GROWS
didachē: teaching, instruction
διδαχή
This noun names the instruction carried out by the teaching in the verse.
didaktos: taught, instructed
διδακτός
This branch describes what teaching makes possible: people who have received instruction.
THE PATTERN
The word is carried among people through sustained teaching and shared life.
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.THE THREAD
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.Both verses use λόγος (logos), translated “word.” Luke names the word as seed; Acts shows it being taught among people over a settled span, revealing the word’s sharing as part of its growth among a community.
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