What Does Acts 26:30 Mean in the King James?

And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:

Acts 26:30 · KJV

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 king’s ordinary rising uses the same Greek word family that names resurrection, so this small change of posture carries the language of rising.

THE MEANING

As the speech ends, the gathered bodies rise together. Their shared change of posture marks a passage from listening to leaving, while the word for their rising echoes a larger language of rising.

THE ROOT

ἀνέστη

anéstē

GROWS FROM

⁨ἵστημι⁩ (histēmi), with ⁨ἀνά⁩ (aná)

Stand; set upright. With ⁨ἀνά⁩, the verb carries the sense of standing or rising up.

The verb here, ⁨ἀνέστη⁩ (anéstē), means “rose up” and belongs to the family of ⁨ἀνίστημι⁩ (anístēmi), “rise” or “stand up.” That family also gives ⁨ἀνάστασις⁩ (anástasis), “resurrection,” joining ordinary standing and rising from death in one verbal thread.

ALSO GROWS

anístēmi: Rise, stand up, or raise

ἀνίστημι

This is the verb family behind the king and the others rising from their seats.

anástasis: Resurrection; a rising

ἀνάστασις

This noun carries the same language of rising into the idea of resurrection.

THE PATTERN

In this Greek word family, rising marks a passage from one state into another.

And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.

Mark 5:42 · KJVThe verb “arose” uses the same word family as the rising in Acts 26:30, here marking the girl’s return to movement.

And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:

Luke 24:46 · KJVThe same family of rising speaks here of rising from death.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

John 11:25 · KJV“Resurrection” shares the root family of the verb translated “rose up” in Acts 26:30.

THE THREAD

And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:

Luke 24:46 · KJV

Acts 26:30 uses the Greek verb ⁨ἀνέστη⁩ (anéstē, “rose up”); Luke’s “to rise” belongs to the same verb family. Here people stand from their seats; there the risen one comes out from death, and the shared root joins both acts in one language of rising.

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