What Does Matthew 14:32 Mean in the King James?
And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
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 wind does not merely disappear: the Greek says it abates as they enter the boat.
THE MEANING
The verse holds entry into the boat and the wind’s abating in one movement. The force around a crossing can be real without owning its outcome. Stillness arrives within the scene, not outside it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The storm does not have the final word over the crossing.
THE ROOT
ἐκόπασεν
ekopasen
GROWS FROM
κοπάζω (kopazō), from κόπος (kopos)
To grow weary; to slacken, abate, or cease.
“Ceased” can sound like a switch from motion to nothing, but κοπάζω carries the shade of slackening or abating. Its word family also holds toil and weariness, making the wind’s force feel as though it is giving way as they enter the boat.
ALSO GROWS
kopos: Toil, labor, weariness
κόπος
This related word gives the wind’s abating a sense of force spent or slackened.
kopiaō: To toil, grow weary
κοπιάω
The same word family links the stilling of the wind with the easing of exertion.
THE PATTERN
The force raging over a crossing can recede, and its power does not determine the crossing’s final state.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.THE THREAD
And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.Mark uses the same verb, κοπάζω (kopazō), meaning “abate” or “cease.” Here it follows Jesus’ rebuke; in Matthew it follows their entering the boat, linking command and presence with the wind giving way.
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