What Does Acts 4:24 Mean in the King James?
And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
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
“One accord” carries the sense of one shared passion, so many voices rise together from a common inward fire to the Maker of all things.
THE MEANING
Many voices rise to God from one shared passion; unity here reaches beneath spoken words to a common inward accord. The prayer names God as maker of heaven, earth, sea, and everything within them, holding every realm and its fullness within one act of making.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that unity is only surface agreement: here, one accord reaches beneath words to a shared passion.
THE ROOT
ὁμοθυμαδόν
homothymadon
GROWS FROM
θυμός
thymos
Passion, heat, or a strong inward impulse.
The word joins homos, “same,” with thymos, “passion”: one accord is a shared inward passion, not merely identical words. The English phrase can hide the force of that common inner movement as many voices rise together.
ALSO GROWS
homothymadon: With one passion; with one accord.
ὁμοθυμαδόν
This is the word in the verse: many people speak from a shared inward impulse.
epithymia: Desire or longing.
ἐπιθυμία
This related thymos word shows the same inward force as desire; here that force is shared rather than private.
ποιήσας
poiēsas
GROWS FROM
ποιέω
poieō
To make or do.
“made” in this verse is poiēsas. The making-word reaches across heaven, earth, and sea, then includes everything within them. The prayer’s shared passion gathers every realm into one acknowledgment of the Maker.
ALSO GROWS
poiētēs: Maker or doer.
ποιητής
It names the one who makes or acts, bringing out the agency behind “hast made.”
poiēma: A thing made; a work.
ποίημα
It points to what comes from making, echoing the verse’s reach to all that is in creation.
THE PATTERN
A shared inward accord gives many people one voice in recognizing the fullness of what they hold in common.
A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.“One accord” translates the same Greek word, ὁμοθυμαδόν (homothymadon), in both verses. Acts 1:14 gathers people in prayer; here, that shared inward passion rises into a spoken acknowledgment of God as Maker.
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