What Does Acts 21:4 Mean in the King James?
And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
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 breath carries a warning through human voices, while the verse leaves the response open.
THE MEANING
A warning can reach you through the breath in other people’s voices, and still leave a response in front of you. The verse holds disclosure and decision together: the message has force, while the response remains open.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A warning carried by the Spirit always makes the next step automatic; here, the warning is explicit, but the verse does not say Paul turns back.
THE ROOT
πνεύματος
pneumatos
GROWS FROM
πνε-
To blow or breathe.
“Spirit” in this verse is pneumatos. The phrase means “through the breath”: the disciples’ warning is spoken through the same breath-word that can also mean wind. The word holds spiritual disclosure and living breath together, so the warning reaches Paul as something voiced through people.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: To blow or breathe.
πνέω
This verb shares the root’s breath and wind sense, keeping the warning connected to the living breath that carries speech.
pnoē: Breath or a blast of wind.
πνοή
This branch makes the breath meaning plain: what is disclosed through the breath arrives in words spoken by the disciples.
THE PATTERN
The breath makes its message audible through human voices within a community.
And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;THE THREAD
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.The Greek word translated “Holy Ghost” here is pneuma, the same breath-word as in Acts 21:4. The breath keeps naming the bonds and afflictions awaiting Paul, holding the warning’s force alongside his movement toward Jerusalem.
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