What Does Luke 5:6 Mean in the King James?
And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
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 catch’s abundance is revealed by the same net that gathers it beginning to fail.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks to the moment when what you receive presses against what currently holds it. The gathering and the strain coexist: the catch is abundant, and the net is coming apart under its weight. Fullness does not make the container limitless.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that receiving more automatically means the existing structure can hold it.
THE ROOT
συνέκλεισαν
synekleisan
GROWS FROM
κλείω (kleíō), with σύν (syn-)
To shut or close; with σύν, to shut in together.
“inclosed” in this verse is synekleisan. The verb pictures the fish shut inside a bounded space, not merely gathered nearby. The same verb appears in Galatians 3:22, where the KJV says Scripture “hath concluded” all under sin.
ALSO GROWS
kleíō: Shut or close.
κλείω
The base verb shows that the catch is enclosed within a boundary.
synékleisen: Shut in or enclosed; translated “concluded” in Galatians 3:22.
συνέκλεισεν
The same verb links the net’s enclosure of the fish with Scripture’s enclosing all under sin.
διερρήγνυτο
dierrhēgnyto
GROWS FROM
ῥήγνυμι
rhēgnumi
To tear, break, or burst.
“brake” in this verse is dierrhēgnyto. The verb describes the net in the process of being torn apart. The strain is part of the scene: the catch is not simply full; the boundary holding it is actively failing.
ALSO GROWS
rhēgnumi: To break or burst.
ῥήγνυμι
This is the root verb behind the net’s breaking.
rhēgma: A break, rent, or rupture.
ῥῆγμα
This related form names the opening that results when something gives way.
THE PATTERN
A gathering can become so full that it exposes the limits of its container.
And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.THE THREAD
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.The verb translated “inclosed” here is the same one rendered “concluded” there, carrying the image of shutting in. Galatians says all are enclosed under missing so the promise may be given; the shared root makes enclosure part of the setting in which a gift is revealed.
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