What Does Romans 10:1 Mean in the King James?
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
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 deliverance of a people is held here as both a heart’s desire and a prayer to God.
THE MEANING
When another people’s deliverance matters, concern becomes prayer addressed to God. Israel is named here as the object of a living desire for deliverance.
THE ROOT
σωθῶσιν
sōthōsin
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
Rescue, preserve, bring safely through
“saved” in this verse is sōthōsin. The Greek verb carries the sense of being brought through danger into safety. Its word-family keeps the act of deliverance, the deliverer, and deliverance itself close together.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēria: Deliverance
σωτηρία
This noun names the rescue Paul longs for, keeping the verse’s hope within the same word-family.
sōtēr: Deliverer
σωτήρ
This branch names the one who brings rescue, showing the personal dimension carried by the family.
προσευχή
proseuchē
GROWS FROM
εὐχ-
euch-
Prayer, wish, vow; the compound adds the sense of being directed toward
The word joins pros, “toward,” to a family of prayer, wish, and vow. Desire does not remain an inward feeling here; it takes direction toward God.
ALSO GROWS
euchē: Prayer, vow
εὐχή
The shared stem holds petition and vow together, giving prayer the weight of an expressed longing.
euchomai: Pray, wish, vow
εὔχομαι
This related verb shows the movement from desire into an uttered appeal.
THE PATTERN
Longing for another’s deliverance becomes a petition addressed to God.
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.THE THREAD
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.The same verb σῴζω (sōzō, deliver) appears in both verses. Verse 9 opens the deliverance Paul longs for in verse 1 through the same word-family.
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