What Does Acts 24:26 Mean in the King James?
He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
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
Repeated conversation can be a form of leverage: Felix keeps summoning Paul while hoping money will unlock the release he controls.
THE MEANING
A person can keep calling you into conversation while making your freedom depend on what they expect to gain. The verse names Felix’s motive plainly: he hopes for money, then he might release Paul. Repeated talk does not dissolve the imbalance when one person controls the release.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Repeated invitations to talk prove sincere interest; this verse shows attention can be sustained by the hope of money and control over another person’s release.
THE ROOT
λύσῃ
lysē
GROWS FROM
λυ-
To loosen, unbind, or release; this is the Greek verbal stem of λύω.
“loose” in this verse is lysē. The verb carries the physical image of unbinding beneath the legal outcome: to release Paul is to loosen what holds him. Related forms extend that image to dismissing someone or taking something apart, gathering freedom and undoing under one root.
ALSO GROWS
apolyō: Release or dismiss
ἀπολύω
This compound carries λύω into the act of setting someone free or sending them away, making Paul’s possible release a concrete unbinding.
katalyō: Undo, dismantle, or destroy
καταλύω
This compound extends the loosening image to something taken apart; here, the possibility of release rests with the person who can unbind Paul.
THE PATTERN
Release is the undoing of what binds, whether freedom is withheld by a person or a bond is removed from a body.
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.THE THREAD
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.“Loose him” is another form of λύω, the same verb family used for Paul’s release. In John, the binding is visible in the graveclothes; in Acts, release depends on the person who holds Paul’s freedom.
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