What Does Mark 5:43 Mean in the King James?
And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
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 girl is kept from public knowledge, but her hunger is not: restored life is met with food.
THE MEANING
Restored life remains embodied: hunger is still there, and care meets it with food. The verse holds the hidden event apart from the ordinary provision that sustains her.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the idea that restored life has moved beyond ordinary need: she still needs to eat, and that need is answered at once.
THE ROOT
δοθῆναι
dothēnai
GROWS FROM
δο-/δω- (do-/dō-)
Give, grant; place something into another’s hands.
“Given” comes from the verb for giving or granting, so the command makes provision an intentional act. The girl’s restoration is joined to something concrete she receives: food.
ALSO GROWS
didōmi: To give, grant.
δίδωμι
The verse’s “to be given” is formed from this verb; the command makes her provision explicit.
dosis: A giving; a gift or provision.
δόσις
This related noun keeps the movement from giving to what is received visible: her food is deliberately supplied.
THE PATTERN
When life is depleted or restored, nourishment meets the person in the body and gives strength for what comes next.
And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.THE THREAD
And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.Luke’s parallel account uses the same Greek verb, δίδωμι (didōmi, to give), in the command to provide her food. The repeated wording joins restored life to tangible care for the body.
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