What Does Luke 9:37 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him.
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 descent is where the height meets the crowd.
THE MEANING
The hill is behind him, and a multitude meets him below. The movement down brings what is encountered on the height within reach of many.
THE ROOT
συνήντησεν
synēntēsen
GROWS FROM
ἀντάω
antaō
To meet or encounter; συνήντησεν is a form of συναντάω, “to meet together.”
“met” in this verse is synēntēsen. The crowd is not merely watching from a distance: its path converges with his. This meeting-root can describe many people or one person arriving to meet another, making encounter the scene’s central movement.
ALSO GROWS
apantaō: To meet or come upon someone.
ἀπαντάω
It shares the meeting-root and keeps the focus on a path arriving at another person.
hypantaō: To go out to meet someone or come face to face.
ὑπαντάω
Like the crowd here, the subject moves into a direct encounter.
THE PATTERN
What is encountered on the height moves down into the waiting crowd.
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judæa and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;THE THREAD
And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.The Greek verb translated “meet” is the same meeting-root used in Luke 9:37. In both scenes, a path brings someone into an encounter, here, a multitude meets Jesus; there, one man meets the disciples.
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