What Does Mark 14:66 Mean in the King James?
And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest:
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
Peter is below in the court when the high priest’s household reaches him through a maidservant.
THE MEANING
You are with Peter in the high priest’s court as a maidservant from that household approaches. The verse holds you at the instant before recognition, when one arrival brings the household into Peter’s immediate space.
THE ROOT
παιδισκῶν
paidiskōn
GROWS FROM
παιδ-
paid-
Child; attendant or servant
The word belongs to the παιδ- family, whose words can name both children and servants. English “maid” gives her household role, while the Greek word-family also carries the child or young attendant within that role.
ALSO GROWS
pais: Child; boy or girl; servant or attendant
παῖς
This wider word-family shows that servant and child are linked senses in the Greek vocabulary behind “maid.”
paidion: Child; little child
παιδίον
Its shared stem makes the child-related sense of the family audible alongside this woman’s servant role.
ἔρχεται
erchetai
GROWS FROM
ἐρχ-
erch-
Come; arrive
“cometh” in this verse is erchetai. The Greek verb presents the maidservant’s arrival as motion into the scene. Related compounds distinguish coming in from coming near, making this small entrance the movement that brings Peter into contact with the high priest’s household.
ALSO GROWS
eiserchomai: Enter; go in
εἰσέρχομαι
This compound makes the inward movement in the shared “come” word-family explicit.
proserchomai: Approach; come near
προσέρχομαι
This branch names the nearness that turns the maidservant’s arrival into an encounter with Peter.
THE PATTERN
A person at the edge of power can carry the recognition or knowledge that changes what happens next.
And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.THE THREAD
And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.The Greek repeats παιδίσκη (paidiskē), “maidservant,” the same word-family as the woman approaching Peter here. Her arrival becomes recognition: she sees him again and speaks, carrying the encounter from approach into exposure.
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