What Does Luke 1:65 Mean in the King James?
And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judæa.
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 event moves outward first as alarm, then as a story people keep speaking.
THE MEANING
A startling event can set fear moving through everyone nearby. Its words then travel beyond the first witnesses, until people across a whole region are talking about what happened.
THE ROOT
διελαλεῖτο
dielaleito
GROWS FROM
λαλ-
lal-
The stem λαλ- (lal-, speaking) appears in λαλέω (laleō, to speak or talk). In διαλαλέω (dialaleō, to talk about or discuss), it describes speech shared among people.
The verb belongs to διαλαλέω (dialaleō, to talk about or discuss): these sayings are being discussed throughout the hill country. “Noised abroad” can sound like anonymous noise, while the Greek centers people talking; speech itself carries the event onward.
ALSO GROWS
laleō: To speak or talk.
λαλέω
This is the speaking stem beneath the verse’s spreading report: the event travels in what people say.
laliá: Speech or a way of speaking.
λαλιά
This related word keeps attention on spoken exchange, the human voices through which the report reaches others.
THE PATTERN
A witnessed event outgrows its first setting when its report travels from hearer to hearer.
And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.THE THREAD
But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.The Greek phrase translated “all these sayings” here and “all these things” there uses the same noun, ῥήματα (rhēmata, sayings or matters). What travels through public speech in this verse is also held and pondered by Mary.
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