What Does Mark 7:13 Mean in the King James?
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
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 same act of handing something down can carry the word forward, or make it powerless beneath the thing handed down.
THE MEANING
A handed-down practice can make God’s word ineffective now when it takes the word’s place. The verse exposes transmission as an active force: what is passed along shapes what can be heard and lived.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A practice does not carry God’s authority simply because it has been handed down; inherited custom can itself make God’s word ineffective.
THE ROOT
παραδόσει
paradosei
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι (didōmi), in the compound παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi)
δίδωμι means “give”; with παρά, the compound means “hand over” or “pass along.”
In Greek, “tradition” (παράδοσις, paradosis) and “delivered” (παρεδώκατε, paredōkate) come from the same hand-over word family. The verse lets you hear that what is handed down and the act of handing it down belong together: transmission can preserve the word, or render it ineffective when it takes the word’s place.
ALSO GROWS
paradosis: A handing over; that which is handed down, a tradition.
παράδοσις
This is the noun translated “tradition” in the verse.
paradidōmi: To hand over, deliver, or pass along.
παραδίδωμι
This is the verb behind “ye have delivered,” linking the practice to the act of passing it on.
THE PATTERN
What is handed on can carry God’s word forward when it remains faithful to it, or displace it when it takes the word’s place.
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.THE THREAD
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.“Delivered” here comes from παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi), the same Greek word family behind “tradition” in Mark. The shared root shows the same act of passing something on can preserve teaching or, as Mark warns, make God’s word ineffective.
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