What Does John 19:36 Mean in the King James?
For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
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 unbroken bone is the Passover sign of deliverance made visible in a body facing death.
THE MEANING
This verse draws your attention to a precise bodily fact: the bones remain unbroken, and that detail is where the scripture reaches fulfillment. The Passover image makes bodily wholeness part of the sign of deliverance. Death is present, but so is the unbroken bone.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that the body is incidental to spiritual meaning: here, fulfillment turns on what happens to a bone.
THE ROOT
συντριβήσεται
syntribēsetai
GROWS FROM
τρίβω
τρίβω (tribō) means to rub or wear down; in συντρίβω (syntribō), to crush or break in pieces.
“broken” in this verse is syntribēsetai. The verse names damage that does not occur: death is present, yet the bone remains intact. The Greek wording of Psalm 34:20 uses the same verb for bones kept whole, carrying the connection across the two verses.
ALSO GROWS
syntribē: crushing; ruin
συντριβή
This noun from the same word family names the damage that the bone in this verse escapes.
syntrimma: crushing; wreckage
σύντριμμα
This branch gives a name to what breaking would leave behind, sharpening the force of the bone remaining whole.
πληρωθῇ
plērōthē
GROWS FROM
πληρόω
πληρόω (plēroō) means to fill, bring to fullness, or fulfill.
“fulfilled” in this verse is plērōthē. The fulfillment verb carries the image of what is written arriving at its full measure in a concrete bodily detail. The scripture is filled out in what happens to this body.
ALSO GROWS
plērēs: full; complete
πλήρης
This related word evokes the fullness that the fulfillment verb brings to the verse’s bodily detail.
plērōma: fullness; full measure
πλήρωμα
This branch makes fulfillment feel like a pattern reaching its full shape, not merely a line being cited.
THE PATTERN
The Passover sign holds deliverance and bodily wholeness together.
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:THE THREAD
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.The Greek wording of this psalm uses the same verb as John for a bone being broken. That shared word ties the unbroken bone here to the image of bones kept whole there.
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