What Does Mark 11:12 Mean in the King James?
And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
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 search for fruit begins with hunger: Jesus approaches the tree with an unmet bodily need.
THE MEANING
Your bodily need is not outside the life this verse shows: Jesus is hungry. Hunger remains plain and unhidden before the tree and its fruit come into view.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The sacred life has no ordinary bodily needs.
THE ROOT
ἐπείνασεν
epeinasen
GROWS FROM
πειν-
pein-
To hunger; to feel the lack of food.
“hungry” in this verse is epeinasen. The Greek verb names bodily hunger directly, while the same verb can also express an inward longing. Mark keeps the bodily need in view; the word’s range lets hunger carry further meaning without losing its physical force.
ALSO GROWS
peinaō: To hunger; to be hungry.
πεινάω
This is the verb’s dictionary form, showing the root beneath the form translated “was hungry.”
epeinasa: I was hungry.
ἐπείνασα
Matthew 25:35 uses this form in the line “I was an hungred,” keeping the same root tied to ordinary bodily need.
THE PATTERN
Scripture keeps hunger concrete while also letting it name a deeper longing for what sustains and fills.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.THE THREAD
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.Mark and Matthew use the same Greek hunger verb: Mark names a body’s appetite, while Matthew uses hunger for longing for righteousness. The shared word carries ordinary appetite into a picture of deep desire, while Mark keeps its bodily force in view.
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