What Does Romans 10:18 Mean in the King James?
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
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 Greek word for “heard” belongs to the same word family as “hearing” and “report”: the verse joins the message arriving with someone receiving it.
THE MEANING
The witness reaches your world through creation’s sound and words that travel to its edges. No human boundary places you beyond that reach. The verse distinguishes a message that has not arrived from one that has already been heard.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that God has left some part of the world in total silence meets the verse’s claim that the sound has reached every edge.
THE ROOT
ἤκουσαν
ēkousan
GROWS FROM
ἀκου-
akou-
To hear or listen; to receive something through hearing.
The verb “heard” shares its word family with the noun akoe, which can mean both “hearing” and “report.” The question is about whether the report has reached its hearers, and the verse answers that its sound has traveled to the earth’s edges.
ALSO GROWS
akoē: Hearing; a report or message heard
ἀκοή
Romans 10:17 uses this same word family for the hearing through which the message comes, linking the report to its reception.
hypakouō: Listen to; obey
ὑπακούω
This related word shows how hearing can extend into a response, while this verse emphasizes that the message has reached its hearers.
THE PATTERN
God’s witness crosses human boundaries through creation, provision, and announced word.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;THE THREAD
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.Romans 10:17 uses akoe, the noun in the same Greek word family as the “heard” in this verse. Together, the verses connect the report’s arrival with the hearing through which it is received.
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