What Does Matthew 27:18 Mean in the King James?
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
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 for “delivered” is built on “give”: envy turns a person into what others hand over.
THE MEANING
Envy can hide beneath the outward act of handing someone over. What appears to be a case against a person can be driven by resentment of that person’s standing.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The public reason for someone’s rejection must be the real motive.
THE ROOT
παρέδωκαν
paredōkan from paradidōmi
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
didōmi
To give; παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi) means to give over or hand over.
The Greek word translated “delivered” is παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi, “hand over”), built from δίδωμι (didōmi, “give”). Envy is named as the force behind that transfer: a person is given into other hands.
ALSO GROWS
didōmi: To give, grant, or place.
δίδωμι
This is the verb’s base: the handover is a giving of someone into another’s hands.
apodidōmi: To give back or repay.
ἀποδίδωμι
The same give-root describes a transfer back to someone, keeping the verse’s movement between hands in view.
metadidōmi: To share or impart.
μεταδίδωμι
The same root can describe sharing; here, with παραδίδωμι, the giving becomes a handover that places someone under another’s power.
THE PATTERN
Envy turns rivalry into the handing over or harming of another.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.THE THREAD
And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.The same Greek handover verb, παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi, “hand over”), appears beside δοῦναι (dounai, “to give”): the handover is named within a transaction. Matthew 27:18 exposes envy as the motive beneath that transfer, joining the hidden appetite to the visible act.
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