What Does Mark 5:8 Mean in the King James?
For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
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 command separates the man from what inhabits him: the spirit is sent out, while the man is not equated with it.
THE MEANING
The command locates the uncleanness in a presence within the man and orders it out. The man is not addressed as the unclean spirit; the person and the presence remain distinct. The word translated “spirit” also carries the sense of breath, giving the command an embodied depth.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that whatever inhabits or oppresses a person defines the entirety of who they are.
THE ROOT
πνεῦμα
pneuma
GROWS FROM
πνέω
pneō
To breathe or blow.
The word behind “spirit” grows from a verb meaning “to breathe” or “blow,” so English can hide its embodied sense of moving breath. Here that presence is commanded out of the man; the person is not equated with it.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: To breathe or blow.
πνέω
The verb at the root of pneuma keeps breath and spirit within one word family.
pnoē: Breath or blowing.
πνοή
This branch makes the word family’s bodily sense visible alongside its sense of spirit.
THE PATTERN
Restoration names what oppresses a person and releases them from its hold.
And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,THE THREAD
And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.Mark uses the same word, πνεῦμα (pneuma, breath or spirit), for the presence that comes out. The repeated scene makes the separation plain: the presence departs, while the man remains distinct from it.
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