What Does Mark 7:31 Mean in the King James?
And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
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 Greek word translated “coasts” means borders or districts, so the route moves through marked territories rather than simply along a shoreline.
THE MEANING
The route moves from Tyre and Sidon through the Decapolis toward the Sea of Galilee. It speaks now of boundaries as places a journey can pass through, rather than final limits on where encounter can reach.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a familiar boundary marks the farthest place encounter can reach: the route continues through other named regions.
THE ROOT
ὁρίων
horíōn
GROWS FROM
ὅρος
horos
Boundary, limit; by extension, a bordered territory or district.
The word translated “coasts” can name a border or district, not only a shoreline. Its word family includes marking out and setting apart, so the sentence keeps the idea of defined territory in view even as the route passes through it.
ALSO GROWS
horizō: To mark out, determine.
ὁρίζω
This branch makes explicit the act of setting a boundary; the verse’s regions are named, marked places along the route.
aphorizō: To separate, set apart.
ἀφορίζω
This branch shows how a boundary distinguishes one space or group from another, while the verse describes movement across such defined regions.
THE PATTERN
Boundaries name regions and separations, but they do not have to end the movement of encounter.
And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.THE THREAD
And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.The Greek word translated “borders” here is the same word family as “coasts” in Mark 7:31. The earlier verse places the movement within a named territory; this verse carries the route onward through more regions.
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