What Does Matthew 4:2 Mean in the King James?
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
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 hunger Jesus feels after fasting is the same Greek hunger-word he uses for longing for alignment.
THE MEANING
The body in this verse feels hunger after an extended fast; the wilderness encounter does not erase bodily need. The verse leaves that need plainly visible alongside spiritual intensity.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This dissolves the belief that spiritual intensity makes bodily need disappear.
THE ROOT
ἐπείνασεν
epeinasen
GROWS FROM
πειν-
pein-
Hunger; felt need for food.
“an hungred” in this verse is epeinasen. This verb names bodily hunger, and its participial form also describes those who hunger for alignment in Matthew 5:6. The same word carries physical appetite into the language of longing, so the image keeps its bodily texture.
ALSO GROWS
peinaō: To hunger; to feel hunger.
πεινάω
This verb names the bodily state that follows the fast in this verse.
peinōntes: Those who hunger.
πεινῶντες
Matthew 5:6 uses this form for those who hunger for alignment, carrying the same bodily word into the language of longing.
peina: Hunger; famine.
πείνα
The noun names hunger as an ongoing condition, widening the root from a moment of appetite to felt deprivation.
THE PATTERN
Scripture uses hunger as both a body’s concrete need and language for inward longing.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.THE THREAD
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.The Greek hunger-root πειν- (pein-, hunger) appears in both verses: here it names bodily hunger, and there it names longing for alignment. The shared word lets the later image keep the physical texture of need.
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