What Does Mark 5:25 Mean in the King James?
And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
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
What English calls an “issue” is, in Greek, a flow: the verse begins by naming a body’s continuing movement of loss.
THE MEANING
The verse gives prolonged bleeding a plain name and counts its years without explaining it away. A condition can be real and long-running without becoming a judgment about your worth.
THE ROOT
ῥύσει
rhýsei
GROWS FROM
ῥέω
rheō
To flow or run.
The Greek phrase describes the woman as being in a flow of blood, keeping the body’s ongoing process visible. English “issue” can sound like an abstract problem; the root carries movement, and the twelve years give that movement its duration.
ALSO GROWS
rheō: To flow or run.
ῥέω
The verb makes clear that the word describes ongoing movement, not a fixed label.
rheuma: A stream or current.
ῥεῦμα
A current is flow made perceptible, echoing how this verse names the body’s continuing condition.
haimorrhoeō: To suffer a flow of blood.
αἱμορροέω
This related compound joins “blood” to “flow,” making explicit the physical process named in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names bodily suffering in physical detail, letting its lived reality stand in the text.
And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.THE THREAD
And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.Verse 25 uses αἷμα (haima, blood); verse 29 returns to the same word when it says the fountain of her blood dries up. The first verse names the ongoing flow, and the next names its cessation within her body.
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