What Does Matthew 6:11 Mean in the King James?
Give us this day our daily bread.
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 prayer asks for what sustains life as a gift for today, not as possession of the whole future.
THE MEANING
This prayer places nourishment in the present: what sustains you is asked for as today’s gift. The rare Greek word translated “daily” is understood as either “for the coming day” or “necessary for existence,” so the line holds immediate provision and what is needed to live.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that you must secure your whole future before you can receive what sustains you today.
THE ROOT
δός
dos
GROWS FROM
δω-
dō-
To give or grant.
The request uses a form of δίδωμι, “to give,” from the δω- word family. Related words name both the act of giving and the gift itself, so the verse’s request for bread is framed in the language of receiving.
ALSO GROWS
dōrea: Gift, freely given; a gift bestowed.
δωρεά
The same word family links the request for daily bread with the idea of a gift received.
dosis: Giving; a gift or act of giving.
δόσις
This branch makes visible the connection between asking for provision and the act of giving.
THE PATTERN
Provision is received in the measure and time of need, while the future remains beyond today’s possession.
Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.THE THREAD
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.The Greek word for “gift,” δόσις (dosis), belongs to the same δω- word family as δός (dos), “give,” in this verse. The shared root connects the daily request with the language of giving and receiving.
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