What Does Matthew 1:22 Mean in the King James?
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
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
Fulfillment is a spoken word arriving at fullness in what becomes visible.
THE MEANING
A word spoken by God does not remain abstract; it moves toward fullness in what becomes visible. What is unfolding before you is a place where the spoken word takes shape.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a divine word can remain inert, separate from lived reality.
THE ROOT
πληρωθῇ
plērōthē
GROWS FROM
πληρ
plēr
fill, make full, bring to full measure
“fulfilled” in this verse is plērōthē. The verb carries the sense of filling something out to its fullness. Fulfillment here joins what is spoken with what becomes visible; the word is not merely checked off but brought into lived expression.
ALSO GROWS
plērēs: full, complete
πλήρης
This branch shows the sense of fullness carried within “fulfilled.”
plērōma: fullness, that which fills
πλήρωμα
It makes the connection between a spoken word and its fullness explicit: what was spoken comes to occupy its full measure.
THE PATTERN
A spoken word moves toward fullness as it takes shape in what happens.
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.THE THREAD
And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.Luke uses the same Greek verb, πληρόω (plēroō), for “fulfilled.” Its fullness reaches the hearing itself: the spoken word becomes present and recognizable.
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