What Does Acts 9:9 Mean in the King James?

And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.

Acts 9:9 · KJV

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 Greek seeing-root that names the absence here reappears in Acts 9:18 as the word for receiving sight, tying the return to the same word-family as the loss.

THE MEANING

The verse meets you at a human limit: sight is absent, and the body goes three days without food or water. It does not explain the deprivation away or resolve it yet; the interval stands exposed.

THE ROOT

βλέπων

blépōn

GROWS FROM

βλεπ-

To see, look, or perceive.

“without sight” in this verse is blépōn. The Greek phrase is ⁨μή βλέπων⁩, literally “not seeing.” In Acts 9:18, ⁨ἀνέβλεψεν⁩ (aneblepsen), “he received sight,” uses the same ⁨βλεπ-⁩ stem: the language of restored sight grows from the word-family that names its absence here.

ALSO GROWS

anablepō: Look up; regain sight.

ἀναβλέπω

Acts 9:18 uses this branch when sight returns, joining the two moments through the same seeing-root.

emblépō: Look at; gaze upon.

ἐμβλέπω

This related verb carries seeing as a directed act of looking, showing the range held in the ⁨βλεπ-⁩ word-family.

THE PATTERN

Scripture portrays sight as something that can be opened and received again.

The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:

Psalm 146:8 · KJVSight appears as something the LORD opens for the blind.

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Isaiah 42:7 · KJVOpening blind eyes is joined to being brought out of darkness and confinement.

He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

John 9:25 · KJVThe movement from blindness to sight is spoken as a received change: “now I see.”

THE THREAD

And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.

Acts 9:18 · KJV

“Received sight” translates ⁨ἀνέβλεψεν⁩ (aneblepsen), built on the same ⁨βλεπ-⁩ stem as “without sight” in this verse. The shared root holds absence and return together in one seeing-family.

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