What Does Mark 10:9 Mean in the King James?
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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 hidden image is a yoke: God binds two lives into a shared bond rather than merely placing them side by side.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks of union as God’s act of yoking two lives into a shared bond, and human separation as the tearing apart of that bond. It addresses the reader now: the relationship carries meaning beyond the momentary will of either person alone.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that a bond’s meaning is only a private arrangement, freely disposable without consequence.
THE ROOT
συνέζευξεν
synezeuxen
GROWS FROM
ζευγ-
zeug-
To yoke or pair together.
“joined together” in this verse is synezeuxen. The Greek verb combines συν- (syn-, together) with the language of yoking and pairing. “Joined” carries the image of two lives bound into a shared connection, with God named as the one who establishes it.
ALSO GROWS
zeugos: A pair or team.
ζεῦγος
This branch keeps the sense of two made into a pair, rather than two merely standing beside one another.
syzygos: A yokefellow or partner.
σύζυγος
The word carries the same image into a person who shares a bond with another.
THE PATTERN
A bond that becomes a shared life carries strength through its joining, and separation breaks that shared whole.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.THE THREAD
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.Matthew uses the same Greek verb, συνέζευξεν (synezeuxen), from ζευγ- (zeug-, yoke or pair). Its opening clause names the result as “one flesh,” making explicit the shared whole that Mark’s verse says human hands can pull apart.
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