What Does Mark 8:8 Mean in the King James?
So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.
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 meal does not end at fullness; what remains makes visible that provision has exceeded the need.
THE MEANING
Your hunger is met, and what remains is gathered into seven baskets. Fullness here holds satisfaction and surplus together: the provision does not stop at barely enough.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that once a need is met, anything left over is waste.
THE ROOT
περισσεύματα
perisseumata
GROWS FROM
περισσεύω
perisseuō
To abound, overflow, or exceed.
The word rendered “left” names more than a remainder: it comes from a word for abundance that exceeds what is needed. The seven baskets make that overflow tangible.
ALSO GROWS
perisseia: Abundance, surplus.
περισσεία
This related word makes explicit the abundance carried by the gathered remainder.
perissos: Exceeding, more than enough.
περισσός
It echoes the verse’s movement from satisfied hunger to provision beyond the meal.
κλάσματα
klasmata
GROWS FROM
κλάω
klaō
To break.
“broken meat” in this verse is klasmata. The gathered pieces still carry the word for breaking within them. What has been broken is not discarded; it becomes part of the visible abundance.
ALSO GROWS
klaō: To break.
κλάω
It is the verb behind the fragments being gathered in the verse.
klasis: A breaking, or the act of breaking.
κλάσις
The related noun appears in the phrase “breaking of bread,” linking broken pieces with a shared meal.
THE PATTERN
Provision meets hunger and leaves a gathered surplus.
So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.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 the same Greek word for “fragments,” κλάσματα (klasmata), and a form of the same abundance-root, περισσεύω (perisseuō), for what remains. The added words “that nothing be lost” show the remainder being gathered, not treated as waste.
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