What Does Luke 5:7 Mean in the King James?
And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.
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 turns the summoned partners into participants in an abundance no single vessel can hold.
THE MEANING
What comes into your life can exceed what one vessel holds. It draws others into shared participation, and what is received becomes shared. Yet shared capacity still has limits: fullness can press both vessels toward sinking.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that abundance makes you self-sufficient dissolves here: the catch immediately calls for others to share in it.
THE ROOT
μέτοχοις
metochois
GROWS FROM
μετέχω (metechō), from μετά (meta) + ἔχω (echō)
To have a share with; to partake.
“Partners” carries the sense of people who share in something, not just helpers standing at the edge of it. The other boat enters the catch as a participant in its labor and its abundance.
ALSO GROWS
metochos: A participant, sharer, or partner.
μέτοχος
This is the singular form behind “partners”: those called over become sharers in what is happening.
metochē: Participation or sharing.
μετοχή
This noun makes the shared portion explicit: the catch crosses from one boat’s work into participation by both.
THE PATTERN
What exceeds one person’s capacity is shared with others, though sharing does not erase the limits of what can hold it.
Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.THE THREAD
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;“Partakers” translates μέτοχοι, the same Greek word family as Luke’s “partners.” The connection reveals partnership as participation: what is shared joins its participants to the same portion.
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