What Does Acts 4:30 Mean in the King James?
By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
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
A stretched hand makes Jesus’ nature visible: deliverance takes form as healing.
THE MEANING
God’s hand reaches toward healing, and signs and wonders take shape through Jesus’ nature. Restoration and revelation move together here: healing makes deliverance visible.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that a sign is spectacle detached from restoration: here, healing and signs arise through the same nature of Jesus.
THE ROOT
ὄνομα
onoma
GROWS FROM
ὀνομα-
Name; by extension, identity or recognized character.
The verse says signs come through the name, the identity and authority represented by Jesus. His Greek name Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous, Jesus) reflects Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua, deliverance), from יָשַׁע (yasha, to deliver); the name’s nature is deliverance reaching the body.
ALSO GROWS
onomazō: To name or designate.
ὀνομάζω
The same name-family extends from the name itself to the act of naming.
epōnymia: A name or title.
ἐπωνυμία
This related form keeps the focus on the identity carried by a name.
ἐκτείνειν
ekteinein
GROWS FROM
τειν-
Stretch or extend.
“stretching forth” in this verse is ekteinein. The hand is not passive: the verb pictures extension toward the need before the healing. Restoration appears as an active reaching, not a distant idea.
ALSO GROWS
teinō: To stretch or extend.
τείνω
This verb shares the root’s basic image of reaching outward.
ektasis: Extension or stretching.
ἔκτασις
This related noun carries the same movement into extended form.
ἴασιν
iasin
GROWS FROM
ἰα-
Healing or curing.
“heal” in this verse is iasin. The hand is stretched toward healing as its destination. The word-family keeps the act of healing beside the healer, showing that the sign accompanies concrete restoration.
ALSO GROWS
iaomai: To heal or cure.
ἰάομαι
The verb names the healing action that the outstretched hand serves.
iatros: Physician or healer.
ἰατρός
The related word names one who carries out the healing.
THE PATTERN
God’s healing reaches into embodied need, and its restoration becomes visible through divine action.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.THE THREAD
And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.Acts 3:16 says strength and full soundness come through the name of Jesus. The same Greek word, ὄνομα (onoma, name), appears in both verses: the nature carried by the name becomes visible as healing.
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