What Does Galatians 1:21 Mean in the King James?
Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
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 verse gives movement a contour: its word for “regions” comes from a root of bending and slope, so the journey crosses shaped terrain rather than blank space.
THE MEANING
Your path can take shape through distinct terrain before its destination is clear. This verse names the regions and leaves the meaning of the crossing open.
THE ROOT
κλίματα
klímata
GROWS FROM
κλιν-
klin-
To bend, lean, or incline; related forms also describe a slope or a place to recline.
The word translated “regions” belongs to a family built around inclination and slope. English “climate” comes through the same Greek word-family, preserving the sense of a zone or stretch of the earth; the verse’s map has contours, not just names.
ALSO GROWS
klínō: To bend, lean, or incline.
κλίνω
This verb carries the root image of a slope or turn that remains beneath the word for a region.
klínē: A bed or couch, a place to recline.
κλίνη
The shared root describes a different kind of inclination: the body leaning or lying down.
THE PATTERN
A journey takes shape through successive places before its full meaning is visible.
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.THE THREAD
But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.Galatians names Cilicia at the scale of a region; here, Tarsus is named within it, bringing the map down to a city. The two verses connect broad terrain with a particular place and its belonging.
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