What Does Mark 5:27 Mean in the King James?
When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.
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 first movement toward deliverance is a touch made in secret, before the need is spoken.
THE MEANING
You can be in the press and still move toward what you have heard of Jesus. The reaching hand makes contact before the need is put into words. The verse holds this approach as a present movement: from hearing, through crowding, into contact.
THE ROOT
ἥψατο
hēpsato
GROWS FROM
ἅπτω
To fasten or attach; in the middle form, to touch or make contact.
“touched” in this verse is hēpsato. The Greek word belongs to a family of fastening and contact. Her movement through the crowd ends not in mere proximity but at a point of connection, before any request is spoken.
ALSO GROWS
haptomai: To touch, take hold of, or attach oneself to.
ἅπτομαι
This middle form is the verse’s verb: the action arrives at contact, not just nearness.
haphē: A joint or point of contact.
ἁφή
The related word can name a bodily joining point, giving touch the sense of an actual connection between bodies.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
To deliver, bringing one out from constriction into spaciousness.
The Greek name in the verse, Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous), represents the Hebrew name Yeshua, which carries the root of deliverance. Hearing of Jesus is hearing of deliverance held in a name.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: To deliver or bring out of distress.
יָשַׁע
This verb shares the name’s root and makes its deliverance meaning explicit.
yeshuah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun from the same root names what the movement toward Jesus seeks.
THE PATTERN
Touch is a threshold where bodily conditions change through contact.
Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.THE THREAD
Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.Luke uses the same Greek verb for the touch and adds what follows immediately. Mark holds the moment of contact; Luke shows it as the hinge between approach and release.
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