What Does Mark 8:19 Mean in the King James?
When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
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
In Greek, “broke” and “fragments” belong to the same word-family, so the gathered pieces still carry the mark of the breaking.
THE MEANING
The question turns your attention to what remains after hunger is met: twelve baskets of fragments. The broken pieces are gathered and countable, not waste. The verse holds breaking and fullness in one scene.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that once something is broken it can only be discarded: here the fragments are gathered into twelve full baskets.
THE ROOT
κλασμάτων
klasmatōn
GROWS FROM
κλα
kla
to break, break apart
“fragments” in this verse is klasmatōn. English separates the action from its aftermath; Greek keeps them in one word-family. What is gathered is still named by the same seed-word as the breaking, so the twelve baskets hold the visible remainder of provision.
ALSO GROWS
klaō: to break
κλάω
This is the verb behind “I brake,” linking the act to the pieces gathered afterward.
klasma: a broken piece, fragment
κλάσμα
This noun names what the breaking leaves behind, showing that the fragments and the action share a root.
THE PATTERN
The provision that meets hunger leaves a gathered remainder rather than waste.
So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.THE THREAD
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.John uses κλασμάτων (klasmatōn, fragments from breaking), the same word as Mark. He adds “that nothing be lost,” making clear that the fragments are gathered rather than dismissed as waste.
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