What Does Acts 22:6 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
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 light comes from beyond your sight and surrounds you before you can choose what it means.
THE MEANING
You may already be moving along a path when light you did not summon breaks in. It comes from beyond your own sight and reaches all around you before its meaning is clear.
THE ROOT
περιαστράψαι
periastrapsai
GROWS FROM
ἀστραπ- (astrap-), with περί (peri, around) prefixed
To flash or blaze like lightning; the prefix περί (peri, around) gives the verb the sense of flashing around.
“shone” in this verse is periastrapsai. The Greek form carries both a flash and an around-motion, echoed by “round about me.” The light arrives as a sudden event that surrounds the traveler, with its reach as striking as its source.
ALSO GROWS
astraptō: To flash like lightning
ἀστράπτω
This related verb carries the same sudden, brilliant flash that marks the light’s arrival.
astrapē: Lightning; a flash
ἀστραπή
This related noun gives the flash a visible, lightning-like force.
φῶς
phōs
GROWS FROM
φωτ- (phōt-), the stem in forms of φῶς
Light; brightness that makes things visible.
The Greek word belongs to the same family as words for illuminating and for a light-bearer. Here the light has both an origin, “from heaven”, and a reach, “round about me.”
ALSO GROWS
phōtizō: To illuminate; to make bright
φωτίζω
This related verb carries light into the act of making something visible.
phōstēr: A luminary; a light-bearer
φωστήρ
This related noun shows the word family can name what bears or gives light.
THE PATTERN
Light originates with God and makes a path or perception possible before a person can produce it.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.The same word, φῶς (phōs, light), names both the great light that surrounds the traveler and the light God shines into hearts here. The shared word opens the outward illumination into an inward one: light reaches a person and makes perception possible.
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