What Does Matthew 13:6 Mean in the King James?
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
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
What looks like growth can be real and still have no depth to draw life through heat.
THE MEANING
Some growth rises quickly while remaining unrooted. When heat reaches it, the missing depth is revealed in withering.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A quick, visible beginning guarantees endurance. This verse shows that first growth and the depth that sustains it are not the same.
THE ROOT
ῥίζαν
rhizan
GROWS FROM
ῥιζ-
Root: the underground part of a plant, and by extension its source or anchor.
The Greek root family links the hidden base with the act of taking root. Here, visible growth cannot endure the heat because there is no underlying root to sustain it.
ALSO GROWS
rhizoō: To take root or become established.
ῥιζόω
In Colossians 2:7, being rooted names a settled condition beneath the visible life; Matthew 13:6 shows what happens when that condition is absent.
errizōmenoi: A form of the verb ῥιζόω, describing what has been rooted.
ἐρριζωμένοι
Ephesians 3:17 uses this form for being rooted in love, showing the sustaining depth that contrasts with the seed that withers here.
THE PATTERN
What is rooted in a continuing source can remain alive through heat, while surface growth alone cannot.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.THE THREAD
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.This verse names the same absence of root and shows its effect as short-lived endurance when pressure comes. The Greek repeats ῥίζα (rhiza), making the withering in verse 6 the visible outcome of that missing depth.
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