What Does Mark 8:6 Mean in the King James?
And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.
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
Provision is already moving before its final measure is seen: the bread is received with thanks, broken, and handed outward.
THE MEANING
You see provision pass through a sequence of shared hands: Jesus gives thanks, breaks the bread, and the disciples set it before the people. What is held becomes available as it is passed outward.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It unsettles the belief that what is in hand must stay intact to remain provision: here the bread reaches people as it is broken and passed on.
THE ROOT
εὐχαριστήσας
eucharistēsas
GROWS FROM
χάρις
charis
Favor; in this word, giving thanks.
“gave thanks” in this verse is eucharistēsas. The Greek verb for giving thanks is built on charis, the word for favor. Gratitude comes before the bread is broken and shared, naming what is held as received favor.
ALSO GROWS
charizomai: To give freely, grant, or bestow.
χαρίζομαι
This related verb links favor with giving, echoing the movement from received bread to bread shared.
eucharistia: Thanksgiving, gratitude.
εὐχαριστία
This related noun makes explicit the thanksgiving already present in Jesus’s action before the food is distributed.
ἔκλασεν
eklasen
GROWS FROM
κλάω
klaō
To break, especially bread into portions.
“brake” in this verse is eklasen. The Greek word family holds together the breaking of bread and the pieces that result. The loaf’s movement toward many begins as it is broken into portions.
ALSO GROWS
klasis: Breaking; used in the phrase “breaking of bread.”
κλάσις
It names the act that changes a loaf into bread that can be shared.
klasma: A fragment or broken piece.
κλάσμα
This word for the resulting pieces shows how one loaf becomes portions that can reach many hands.
THE PATTERN
Provision reaches many through bread that is set before them and shared.
And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof. So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,THE THREAD
And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.John uses the same Greek verb for giving thanks before the loaves move through the disciples to the people. In both verses, gratitude opens a sequence in which provision reaches the crowd through shared hands.
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