What Does Matthew 9:26 Mean in the King James?
And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
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
“Fame” here is a report in motion: what happens keeps traveling through the people who hear of it.
THE MEANING
The report moves beyond those closest to the event and reaches the whole land. What happens continues outward as something people speak and hear.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that what witnesses see stays contained among them gives way: the report travels through the whole land.
THE ROOT
φήμη
phēmē
GROWS FROM
φημί
phēmi
to say, speak, or declare
“Fame” can sound like public status, but φήμη means a report: what is being said. Its root ties the event’s reach to speech itself, as the report moves from one person to another.
ALSO GROWS
phēmi: to say, declare
φημί
The base verb makes clear that the fame moving through the land is carried in what people say.
phasis: a saying, statement
φάσις
This related word also names spoken content, echoing how the event travels as a report.
THE PATTERN
What is witnessed or made known travels outward through speech beyond its point of origin.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.THE THREAD
But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.Here the healed men actively spread the fame that Matthew 9:26 describes as going abroad. The Greek verb for “spread abroad” shares the φημ- root of φήμη, the report itself.
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