What Does Matthew 13:8 Mean in the King James?
But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
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 ground’s fruitfulness is an ongoing giving, and all three harvest sizes belong to the same fruitful life.
THE MEANING
What reaches receptive ground in you keeps yielding beyond the moment it takes root. Its fruit may come in different measures, and the verse names each measure as fruit.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that fruitfulness counts only at its largest measure: the sixtyfold and thirtyfold yields are fruit too.
THE ROOT
ἐδίδου
edidou
GROWS FROM
διδο- (didō-), the stem of δίδωμι (didōmi)
To give, grant, or yield.
The Greek verb is imperfect, picturing the ground as giving fruit over time. Under “brought forth” is an ongoing yield: the seed’s life becoming visible through receptive soil.
ALSO GROWS
apodidōmi: Give back, render, or repay.
ἀποδίδωμι
The same giving stem appears when something is returned or rendered; here the ground gives a yield.
metadidōmi: Share or impart.
μεταδίδωμι
The ground’s giving makes the life of the seed visible in what it shares as fruit.
καρπόν
karpon
GROWS FROM
καρπ- (karp-), the Greek stem of καρπός (karpos)
Fruit, produce, or yield.
The shared stem names both fruit and fruitlessness, while this verse applies the fruit-word to all three yields. Its contrast is fruit versus no fruit, not large versus small.
ALSO GROWS
karpophoreō: Bear or produce fruit.
καρποφορέω
This verb uses the same fruit stem to name the act of bearing fruit.
akarpos: Fruitless or unfruitful.
ἄκαρπος
The opposite of fruitfulness is named as having no fruit, not as producing a smaller measure.
THE PATTERN
What is rooted in a living source bears visible fruit in its season, with the yield taking different measures.
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.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.I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.THE THREAD
But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.This verse opens the picture by showing the movement from receiving and understanding to bearing fruit. It repeats all three harvest measures, placing thirtyfold within fruitfulness alongside a hundredfold.
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