What Does John 6:18 Mean in the King James?
And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
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 sea is not merely rising; the Greek pictures it being roused, as if the wind awakens the water.
THE MEANING
The waters around you can rise because a force is moving through them; the turbulence is real and has a cause. The verse names the wind driving the surface while the deeper scene is still unfolding.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the thought that turbulence is causeless: the verse names the great wind as the force stirring the sea.
THE ROOT
διηγείρετο
diegeireto
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω
egeirō
To wake, rouse, or raise.
KJV’s “arose” can sound like a neutral change in level, while διηγείρετο (diegeireto, was being roused) carries a sense of agitation. Its root connects the sea’s movement to awakening and rising.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: To wake or raise; the verb can describe waking someone from sleep or raising the dead.
ἐγείρω
This root makes the sea’s movement sound like something being stirred awake, not only water changing height.
egersis: A rising or resurrection; used for resurrection in Matthew 27:53.
ἔγερσις
The root family reaches from a rousing to a rising, giving the verse’s motion a wider resonance.
πνέοντος
pneontos
GROWS FROM
πνέω
pneō
To blow or set air in motion.
“blew” in this verse is pneontos. The verse names ἄνεμος (anemos, wind) as the force and πνέοντος (pneontos, blowing) as its action. The verb belongs to the family of πνεῦμα (pneuma, wind, spirit, breath), keeping blowing air linked to a word-family that can name wind, breath, and spirit.
ALSO GROWS
pneuma: Wind, spirit, or breath.
πνεῦμα
This related noun carries the same moving-air sense while also naming spirit and breath.
pnoē: A blowing or breath; in Acts 2:2 it describes a rushing wind.
πνοή
This branch uses the same family for the force of moving air, echoing the wind that stirs the sea here.
THE PATTERN
Wind-stirred waters reveal both the force moving them and the authority that can meet their movement.
But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.THE THREAD
And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.John names a great wind rousing the sea; Mark gives that same pairing a spoken response, as Jesus commands both the wind and the sea. The second scene makes visible the authority that meets the turbulence in the first.
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