What Does Acts 18:7 Mean in the King James?
And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
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 house does not merely sit near the synagogue: the Greek says the two share a border.
THE MEANING
A God-revering man’s house touches the synagogue, and Paul enters that home. The verse places household life and gathered worship edge to edge, with no long distance between devotion and daily space.
THE ROOT
συνομοροῦσα
synomorousa
GROWS FROM
ὁμορ
Bordering, being adjacent, sharing an edge.
“joined hard” in this verse is synomorousa. The Greek describes more than closeness: the house and synagogue meet along a boundary. English can make the house sound simply nearby, while the Greek gives us a shared edge between household space and gathered worship.
ALSO GROWS
homoros: Neighboring, sharing a border.
ὅμορος
This word shares the ὁμορ consonants and makes the verse’s adjacency concrete: the house is a bordering neighbor to the synagogue.
homoreō: To border on, be adjacent to.
ὁμορέω
This verb carries the same root family and clarifies that the house touches the synagogue’s boundary.
σεβομένου
sebomenou
GROWS FROM
σεβ
Reverence, regard with awe.
“worshipped” in this verse is sebomenou. The word presents Justus as one who reveres God. That reverence belongs to the man whose home shares a boundary with the synagogue, bringing inward regard and public worship into the same frame.
ALSO GROWS
sebas: Awe, reverence.
σέβας
It shares the σεβ root and names the regard carried by Justus’s worship.
sebastos: Revered, worthy of reverence.
σεβαστός
This branch shares the root and shows the same family of words describing what receives reverence.
THE PATTERN
Devotion crosses the boundary between gathered worship and household life, making the home a place where worship takes root.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.THE THREAD
Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.Acts names Justus’s οἰκία (oikia), a house beside the synagogue; Romans uses οἶκος (oikos), from the same οἰκ root, for a house holding the assembly. The neighboring home in Acts opens onto a wider picture of worship inhabiting household space.
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