What Does Acts 24:11 Mean in the King James?
Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
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 ascent to Jerusalem carries its opposite within it: worship is the posture of bowing down.
THE MEANING
Your movement toward wholeness takes shape as bowing down. The verse keeps that approach concrete, twelve days since the ascent to Jerusalem, and the place-name echoes shalom, wholeness.
THE ROOT
προσκυνήσων
proskynēsōn
GROWS FROM
προσκυνέω
proskyneō
To bow down; to prostrate oneself.
The Greek verb makes worship bodily: its center is bowing down. English “worship” can sound abstract, while this word keeps the lowered posture within the act.
ALSO GROWS
proskyneō: To bow down; worship.
προσκυνέω
The base verb makes the posture inside this verse’s word for worship clear.
proskynētēs: One who bows down; a worshipper.
προσκυνητής
The same word family names a person through this posture, showing worship as an embodied act.
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שׁלם
sh-l-m
Wholeness; being complete.
The name Jerusalem carries the echo of shalom, wholeness, with a dual ending. The destination’s name resonates with wholeness, while the verb for worship names the posture of bowing down.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness.
שָׁלוֹם
This is the sound of wholeness carried within Jerusalem’s name.
shalem: Whole; complete.
שָׁלֵם
This branch of the same root gives the destination’s resonance a sense of completeness.
THE PATTERN
Approach to God takes the shape of bowing down.
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,THE THREAD
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.The Greek verb προσκυνέω (proskyneō, “bow down”) connects the worship named in both verses. John’s “now is” brings that posture into the present, opening the journey toward Jerusalem into a living act.
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