What Does Mark 7:30 Mean in the King James?
And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
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 daughter remains when the demon leaves: the affliction is not the person.
THE MEANING
The daughter is still there, lying on the bed, while the demon has gone out. The verse holds those two realities apart: what afflicts her departs, and she remains. Her presence on the bed is what her mother finds after the departure.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The daughter is not identical to what torments her; the verse names them separately, and one leaves while the other remains.
THE ROOT
ἐξεληλυθός
exelēlythos
GROWS FROM
ἐρχ-
erch-
To come or go; the prefix ἐξ- (ex-) gives the movement its outward direction.
The word translated “gone out” is a completed form of ἐξέρχομαι (exérchomai, to go out or depart). This verb family can describe entering, leaving, or passing through, depending on its prefix; here the direction is clear, the demon departs, while the daughter remains.
ALSO GROWS
exérchomai: To go out, depart
ἐξέρχομαι
The prefix ἐξ- marks the outward movement in this verse.
eisérchomai: To go in, enter
εἰσέρχομαι
With a different prefix, the same verb marks movement inward, the opposite direction.
diérchomai: To pass through
διέρχομαι
This compound shows the verb’s broader sense of movement across a boundary.
THE PATTERN
The departure of an afflicting spirit is distinct from the person it had afflicted, who remains.
And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.THE THREAD
And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.The previous verse already names the departure; this verse shows the mother finding her daughter after it. Both use ἐξέρχομαι (exérchomai, to go out), linking the announced change with what she sees.
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