What Does Acts 3:8 Mean in the King James?
And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
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
Praise is the healed body in motion: he walks and leaps as he enters the temple.
THE MEANING
The verse meets you with restoration in the body: standing, walking, leaping, and entering with others belong to one continuous scene. Praise rises within that movement, not after it. Wholeness appears as restored capacity taking part in shared space.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that restoration is complete once the body can stand falls away here: the man also enters with others and praises as he moves.
THE ROOT
ἐξαλλόμενος
exallomenos
GROWS FROM
ἅλλομαι
hallomai
to spring or leap
“leaping” in this verse is exallomenos. The word carries the sense of springing forth. The verse then repeats the leap in the man’s ongoing movement, so his restored capacity is visible in his body as he enters.
ALSO GROWS
hallomai: to leap or spring
ἅλλομαι
The unprefixed form makes clear that leaping is the core movement in the verse’s first word.
halma: a leap or bound
ἅλμα
This related noun names the same springing movement that the verse shows in the man’s body.
περιεπάτει
periepatei
GROWS FROM
πατέω
pateō
to tread or step
“walked” in this verse is periepatei. English can make “walk” sound like a figure for conduct, but here its Greek base is the body’s literal footfall. The repeated walking keeps the man’s restored movement in view as he enters the temple.
ALSO GROWS
peripateō: to walk or go about
περιπατέω
This is the verb used here for the man’s actual walking.
katapateō: to tread down or trample
καταπατέω
This related form also grows from the language of treading, making the shared footfall beneath “walked” audible.
αἰνῶν
ainōn
GROWS FROM
αἰν-
ain-
praise or commend
The praise is expressed as an action happening alongside the man’s movement. He is not separated from his body to praise; walking, leaping, and praising appear together.
ALSO GROWS
ainesis: praise
αἴνεσις
This noun names the act of praise from the same Greek word family.
epainos: praise or commendation
ἔπαινος
This related form shows praise as recognition or commendation, the meaning carried by his praise of God.
THE PATTERN
When movement is restored, the body crosses into shared presence and praise.
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.THE THREAD
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.The same Greek verb, περιπατέω (peripateō), names bodily walking in both scenes. Here and at Bethesda, walking is restored movement made visible in the body.
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