What Does Mark 1:29 Mean in the King James?
And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
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 scene moves from a place named for gathering into a household named by dwelling, carrying the gathering across a home’s threshold.
THE MEANING
You see the movement carry Jesus and his companions from public assembly into Simon and Andrew’s home. The verse holds both settings in one continuous scene, with the household inside the same life of encounter as the synagogue.
THE ROOT
οἰκίαν
oikian
GROWS FROM
οἰκ-
οἰκ- (oik-): the word-family stem for house and dwelling.
The KJV’s “house” can sound like a building alone, while οἰκίαν (oikian, “house”) belongs to the οἰκ- (oik-, “house/dwelling”) family, which includes οἶκος (oikos, “house/household”) and οἰκέω (oikeō, “dwell/inhabit”). The verse names people with the home and brings the group into their dwelling, making it a lived place rather than a bare location.
ALSO GROWS
oikos: House; household.
οἶκος
This related word holds the building and the household within one family, illuminating the named home as a place where people live.
oikeō: Dwell; inhabit.
οἰκέω
The same stem describes living in a place, making the house a dwelling the group enters.
συναγωγῆς
synagōgēs
GROWS FROM
ἀγ-
ἀγ- (ag-): the word-family stem in ἄγω (agō), “lead” or “bring.”
The KJV’s “synagogue” comes from συναγωγή (synagōgē, “assembly”), formed from συν- (syn-, “together”) and the family of ἄγω (agō, “lead/bring”). The movement begins at a place named for gathering, then carries the people into a dwelling.
ALSO GROWS
agō: Lead; bring.
ἄγω
This verb supplies the bringing sense within the word-family behind the synagogue.
synagō: Gather; bring together.
συνάγω
This related form makes the gathering sense of the synagogue word-family visible.
THE PATTERN
Household life remains a setting for encounter and shared devotion alongside public gathering.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,THE THREAD
And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.Mark uses οἴκῳ (oikō, “house”), from the same οἰκ- (oik-, “house/dwelling”) family as οἰκίαν (oikian, “house”) here. The house entered in this verse becomes the setting for another arrival, and the scene soon draws a crowd inside.
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