What Does Mark 1:25 Mean in the King James?
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of 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
“Hold thy peace” is literally “Be muzzled”: the occupying voice is silenced before it is ordered out.
THE MEANING
This verse names a boundary between the person and the unclean presence speaking through him: the presence is silenced and sent out. Jesus’ name carries deliverance, and here deliverance means release from an occupying force.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that an unclean voice has the right to define or occupy a person is undone: Jesus commands the voice, and the person remains distinct from it.
THE ROOT
Φιμώθητι
Phimōthēti
GROWS FROM
φιμ-
phim-
Muzzle; restrain by placing a muzzle over the mouth.
“Hold thy peace” in this verse is Phimōthēti. The command carries the concrete image of being muzzled. The same Greek verb is used for muzzling an ox, so the verse’s command to silence the voice is forceful and direct.
ALSO GROWS
phimóō: To muzzle; silence by restraint.
φιμόω
This is the verb behind the command, showing the concrete action inside “Hold thy peace.”
phimōseis: You shall muzzle.
φιμώσεις
The same verb appears in “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox” (1 Corinthians 9:9), preserving the image of a mouth forcibly stopped.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yēshūaʿ Iēsous
GROWS FROM
ישע
y-š-ʿ
Deliver; bring out of constriction into spaciousness.
“Jesus” in this verse is Yēshūaʿ Iēsous. The name carries deliverance within it. Here that nature is visible in the sequence: the force is silenced, then sent out of the person.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuʿah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
The word names the release enacted when the unclean presence is driven out.
moshiaʿ: Deliverer.
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This branch names the one who brings a person out of what holds them.
πνεῦμα
Pneuma
GROWS FROM
πνευ-/πνε- (pneu-/pne-)
Breathe, blow, move as air.
The Greek word rendered “spirit” can also mean breath and wind, holding together meanings that English often separates. Here it names the unclean presence Jesus silences and orders out.
ALSO GROWS
pnéō: To breathe or blow.
πνέω
This verb keeps the sense of air moving inside the word translated “spirit.”
pnoē: Breath or blast of air.
πνοή
This related word makes the breath meaning of pneuma audible.
THE PATTERN
A commanding voice sets a limit on chaotic power, and the force that overwhelms must yield.
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.And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.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.“Be still” in this verse uses the same Greek root as “Hold thy peace” in Mark 1:25: both commands carry the image of muzzling. One silences the unclean presence in a person; the other silences the wind.
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