What Does Matthew 22:27 Mean in the King James?

And last of all the woman died also.

Matthew 22:27 · KJV

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 Greek verb belongs to the same word-family as “die together”: the woman stands inside the same mortal condition as the men.

THE MEANING

The woman reaches the same mortal limit as the seven men: the final word that applies to them reaches her too. The sequence of marriages ends at a shared human boundary, leaving the question of life beyond death exposed.

THE ROOT

ἀπέθανεν

apéthanen

GROWS FROM

⁨θνῄσκω⁩ (thnēskō), with the aorist stem ⁨θα-⁩/⁨θαν-⁩

To die.

“died” in this verse is apéthanen. The verb ⁨ἀπέθανεν⁩ is an aorist form of ⁨ἀποθνῄσκω⁩ (apothnēskō, “to die”), whose stem shifts between ⁨θνησκ-⁩ and ⁨θα-⁩/⁨θαν-⁩. The same word-family can name dying together, and the verse’s “also” places the woman within that shared mortal condition.

ALSO GROWS

synapothnēskō: To die together.

συναποθνῄσκω

It shares the dying verb’s root and makes explicit the shared condition that the verse marks with “also.”

thanatos: Death.

θάνατος

This noun uses the related ⁨θα-⁩/⁨θαν-⁩ stem, naming the condition reached by the verb in the verse.

THE PATTERN

Every human life meets death as a shared boundary.

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

Ecclesiastes 3:2 · KJVDeath appears as one of the recurring times within human life.

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Psalm 89:48 · KJVThe question treats death as a boundary no living person escapes.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Hebrews 9:27 · KJVThe verse states death as the common passage of human life.

THE THREAD

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Hebrews 9:27 · KJV

Matthew’s ⁨ἀπέθανεν⁩ (apethanen, “died”) and Hebrews’ ⁨ἀποθανεῖν⁩ (apothanein, “to die”) belong to the same Greek verb family. Matthew shows that shared boundary reaching one woman; Hebrews names it as the common passage of human life.

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