What Does Acts 4:36 Mean in the King James?
And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,
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
Barnabas’s name makes consolation visible as a quality a person can carry into others’ lives.
THE MEANING
A name can reveal the shape of a person’s presence: Joses is known as Barnabas, “son of consolation.” Here consolation means comfort and encouragement that steadies another. The verse lets you see identity through what a person brings.
THE ROOT
παρακλήσεως
paraklēseōs
GROWS FROM
παρακαλε-
parakale-
The Greek word family carries the sense of comfort, encouragement, and urging an appeal; consolation can steady someone toward courage or resolve.
The Greek phrase translated “son of consolation” uses a word from the same family as parakaleō, meaning to comfort or urge. English “consolation” can sound like a feeling, while the root also holds an active quality of encouragement that strengthens another.
ALSO GROWS
parakaleō: To comfort or encourage; also to urge or appeal.
παρακαλέω
This is the verb from the same word family: consolation can be something expressed through comfort or an urging that strengthens.
paraklētos: An advocate or helper.
παράκλητος
Its shared word family links consolation with help that stands in support of another.
THE PATTERN
Comfort becomes a strength when it is spoken, embodied, and passed from one person to another.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.THE THREAD
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.The repeated Greek word family behind “comfort” and “consolation” connects this verse’s name for Barnabas with comfort that is received and then given. It opens “son of consolation” as a quality that reaches beyond one person and strengthens others.
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