What Does Matthew 25:19 Mean in the King James?
After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
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
A long delay does not erase the account; it gives the entrusted work time to unfold.
THE MEANING
What is placed in your hands remains accountable even when its giver seems long absent. The time between receiving it and giving account is real, and so is the eventual reckoning.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The delay means the account has been forgotten.
THE ROOT
συναίρει
synairei
GROWS FROM
συν- + αἴρω (syn- + airō)
To take up together; in this phrase, to settle accounts.
“reckoneth” in this verse is synairei. The verb is formed from συν (syn, together) and αἴρω (airō, take up or lift). Its established sense here is to settle accounts, with a word-shape that gathers things together: the entrusted work is brought forward and reckoned with its giver.
ALSO GROWS
airō: Take up, lift, or carry.
αἴρω
This base verb gives συναίρει its sense of taking something up together; the account is brought forward for reckoning.
epairō: Lift up or raise.
ἐπαίρω
This compound shares the αἴρω root and keeps the image of something being raised or brought up into view.
THE PATTERN
Time does not erase responsibility; what is done comes into account.
Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.THE THREAD
Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.Matthew 18:23 uses the same Greek verb συναίρω (synairō, settle accounts) as “reckoneth” here. That shared root makes the meeting in Matthew 25 an account brought forward, not merely a return after a long absence.
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