What Does Matthew 4:14 Mean in the King James?
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, 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 saying reaches its fullness as it takes shape in what is happening now.
THE MEANING
The words spoken through Isaiah are coming to fullness in the scene now unfolding. What was spoken is taking shape before you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a spoken word stays separate from reality gives way here: the saying reaches visible fullness.
THE ROOT
πληρωθῇ
plērōthē
GROWS FROM
πληρ
plēr-: full, fullness; to fill
“fulfilled” in this verse is plērōthē. The saying reaches fullness in the scene now unfolding. Fulfillment carries the image of a spoken word filled out in lived reality.
ALSO GROWS
plēroō: to fill, make full, bring to completion
πληρόω
This is the verb form behind “fulfilled,” holding the sense of bringing something to fullness.
plērōma: fullness, that which fills
πλήρωμα
This related word makes visible the shared image of fullness carried by the verse’s verb.
plērēs: full, complete
πλήρης
This adjective belongs to the same consonantal family and shows the state toward which the saying moves.
יְשַׁעְיָהוּ
Yəšaʿyāhū
GROWS FROM
ישע
y-š-ʿ (yashaʿ): deliver, bring out of constriction
“Esaias” in this verse is Yəšaʿyāhū. Isaiah’s name carries the sense “YHWH delivers.” The verse joins that name to a spoken saying coming to fullness.
ALSO GROWS
yashaʿ: to deliver, bring out
יָשַׁע
This verb carries the root meaning held within Isaiah’s name.
yeshuah: deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun shows the root’s movement expressed as deliverance itself.
moshiaʿ: deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This related form names the one who brings deliverance.
THE PATTERN
A spoken word reaches fullness when it takes shape in the present.
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.Matthew 5:17 uses the same Greek verb-family, πληρόω (plēroō, to fill or bring to fullness). Matthew 4:14 names one saying reaching fullness; here the same pattern opens across the Law and the Prophets.
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