What Does Matthew 2:21 Mean in the King James?
And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
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 verse makes arrival part of deliverance: the child and his mother are carried all the way into a place where they can belong.
THE MEANING
The child and his mother come into the land of Israel; their movement has a destination. For you, release from danger is not the whole movement: life can also be brought into a place where it can stand and take root.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that escape alone completes deliverance falls away; the verse gives the movement a destination, and arrival is part of the rescue.
THE ROOT
ἐγερθείς
eger-theis
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω
egeirō
to rouse, awaken, or raise up
“arose” in this verse is eger-theis. The same root carries waking and rising, so this is movement stirred into life, not merely a change of place. What rises can now carry the child and his mother toward arrival.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: to awaken, rouse, or raise
ἐγείρω
The same verb joins waking with rising, opening the movement here as a response into life.
egersis: a rising or resurrection
ἔγερσις
This noun makes the root’s movement from being raised to rising visible.
παρέλαβεν
parelaben
GROWS FROM
λαμβάνω
lambanō
to take or receive
“took” in this verse is parelaben. The verb carries the sense of taking someone along or receiving them. The child and his mother are not left behind as the journey continues; they are gathered into its movement.
ALSO GROWS
lambanō: to take or receive
λαμβάνω
This base verb shows the receiving held inside the act of taking them along.
antilambanomai: to take hold of, support, or help
ἀντιλαμβάνομαι
This related form carries taking hold into support, illuminating the care involved in bringing the vulnerable along.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance completes its movement when those carried out of danger arrive somewhere they can belong.
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:THE THREAD
And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.The same paired verbs appear here as a command: rise and take the child and his mother. This verse shows that movement reaching its destination, with those entrusted to the journey still gathered along.
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