What Does Acts 7:50 Mean in the King James?
Hath not my hand made all these things?
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 hand that made all things cannot be contained by anything it made.
THE MEANING
The world around you is already the work of God’s hand. Every human-made space belongs to the order of what has been made; the maker exceeds every structure because all things arise from that hand.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a sacred building can contain God or make divine presence manageable: the maker already exceeds every structure.
THE ROOT
ἐποίησεν
epoiēsen
GROWS FROM
ποιέω
poieō
to do, make, or bring about
Greek keeps “made” and “things made” in one word family: the world is not inert backdrop but the maker’s work. The making points beyond visible things to the agency that brought them forth.
ALSO GROWS
poiēma: thing made; workmanship
ποίημα
This branch names the made thing itself, showing how the verse’s “all these things” belong to the same family as the act of making.
poiētēs: maker; doer
ποιητής
This branch names the one who makes, drawing out the distinction between the maker and everything made.
χείρ
cheir
GROWS FROM
χείρ
cheir
hand
Here “hand” names active agency: the hand makes the whole world, while the nearby verse speaks of temples made with human hands. The same language distinguishes the maker from the structures people make.
ALSO GROWS
cheiropoiētos: made by hand
χειροποίητος
This word appears in Acts 7:48 for temples made by human hands, sharpening the contrast with the hand that made all things.
acheiropoiētos: not made by hands
ἀχειροποίητος
This related word names what is beyond human construction, extending the verse’s distinction between the maker and made structures.
THE PATTERN
The maker’s work is wider than any created structure, and creation itself points beyond what human hands build.
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.THE THREAD
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;The Greek verb ποιέω (poieō, to make or do) underlies “made” here and in Acts 7:50. Both verses place the making of all things beside the limit of temples made by human hands.
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