What Does Matthew 15:1 Mean in the King James?
Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, 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
The scribes’ title grows from the Greek word for a written letter, placing the keepers of the text face-to-face with the person it points toward.
THE MEANING
The verse brings the keepers of written teaching into direct presence with Jesus; interpretation stands face-to-face with the one it names. The words they handle and the living person they concern occupy one scene.
THE ROOT
γραμματεῖς
grammateis
GROWS FROM
γράμμα
gramma
A letter or written character; a mark made in writing.
The Greek word for “scribes” grows from γράμμα (gramma, letter or written character), carrying the mark of writing inside the title. The verse places those formed around written words before Jesus, where the text’s keepers stand in the presence of the person it points toward.
ALSO GROWS
grammateus: Scribe or secretary.
γραμματεύς
The singular form names the same role as γραμματεῖς and carries the written-letter root.
grammateia: Scribal office or secretariat.
γραμματεία
This branch names the work or office organized around written records.
grammatikos: Skilled in letters; grammatical.
γραμματικός
This branch describes a person or skill shaped by letters and written language.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
y-sh-ʿ
Deliver; bring out from constriction into spaciousness.
The verse’s Greek Ἰησοῦ (Iēsou, Jesus) carries the Hebrew name יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua, deliverance), from יָשַׁע (yasha, deliver). The one at the center of the scene is not only a teacher being approached; his name carries the movement from narrowness into spaciousness.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: To deliver or bring out.
יָשַׁע
This verb is the root action carried in the name Yeshua.
yeshuah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun names the release or rescue that grows from the root.
hoshia: He delivered; he brought out.
הוֹשִׁיעַ
This form makes the root’s deliverance an accomplished action.
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
Whole, complete, intact.
The verse’s Greek Ἱεροσολύμων (Hierosolymōn, Jerusalem) names יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (Yerushalayim), whose name carries the consonantal family of שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness). The visitors come from a place whose name holds the larger movement toward wholeness, even as the verse leaves their purpose unstated.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness; well-being.
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar branch shows the root’s sense of an intact, whole condition.
shalem: Whole; complete.
שָׁלֵם
This form names the state of being brought to completeness.
hishlim: To complete; bring to completion.
הִשְׁלִים
This verb expresses the root as movement toward a whole condition.
THE PATTERN
The written witness draws its interpreters toward the person it names.
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.THE THREAD
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.The Greek word translated “letter” is γράμματος (grammatos), a form of γράμμα (gramma), the root inside γραμματεῖς (grammateis, scribes). It opens the scene further by placing written authority beside the distinction between the letter and life given by the breath.
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