What Does Acts 20:6 Mean in the King James?
And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
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 word translated “abode” means to spend time: arrival is only part of the journey, and seven days are lived through at Troas.
THE MEANING
Life reaches you in movement and in intervals of remaining; a stop is not empty space between destinations. The seven days at Troas give staying a real place in the journey.
THE ROOT
διετρίψαμεν
dietripsamen
GROWS FROM
τρίβω
Rub or wear; διατρίβω (diatríbō), formed with διά (dia, through), means to spend time or stay.
“abode” in this verse is dietripsamen. The Greek verb is διατρίβω (diatríbō), meaning to spend time or remain in a place. Its root carries the image of rubbing or wearing through, giving the seven days a texture of time passed, not merely a point on a map.
ALSO GROWS
tribō: Rub or wear.
τρίβω
This is the root within the verb translated “abode,” linking the stay to time spent and worn through.
tribos: A beaten or trodden path.
τρίβος
The related word for a path echoes the journey’s movement, while διατρίβω marks the time spent along the way.
THE PATTERN
A journey takes shape through both movement between places and time spent in a place.
And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place.And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.THE THREAD
And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.“Tarried” here translates the same Greek word family as “abode” in Acts 20:6: διατρίβω (diatríbō), to spend time or stay. The repeated seven-day interval reveals staying as a measured part of the journey, not a gap outside it.
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