What Does Romans 4:19 Mean in the King James?

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:

Romans 4:19 · KJV

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THE KEY

Both impossible conditions share the same Greek death-root, while trust remains present beside them.

THE MEANING

The verse holds two things in the same frame: a body already called dead and a womb described by the same death-root. Trust does not make those conditions unreal; it is the weight placed on the promise while they remain visible. The reader can recognize what seems spent without treating that sight as the whole measure of what is possible.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie is that seeing a real limit clearly means no promise or future can stand beyond it.

THE ROOT

νέκρωσις

nekrōsis

GROWS FROM

νεκρ-

nekr-

Dead; the reality or condition of death.

The form describing Abraham’s body, ⁨νενεκρωμένον⁩ (nenekrōmenon, “having been made dead”), and the noun for Sarah’s womb, ⁨νέκρωσις⁩ (nekrōsis, “deadness”), belong to the same Greek word-family. One death-root binds the two bodily limits together; the verse places trust beside both without erasing either.

ALSO GROWS

nekroō: To make dead, put to death

νεκρόω

The verb-family behind the description of Abraham’s body shows that its deadness is named plainly.

nekros: Dead; a dead person or corpse

νεκρός

This related form makes the shared death-language between body and womb visible.

πίστις

pistis

GROWS FROM

πείθω

peithō

To persuade, win over, or bring to trust.

“faith” in this verse is pistis. The Greek word-family around ⁨πίστις⁩ (pistis, “trust”) carries the sense of reliance and being persuaded, not a mood that refuses evidence. Here trust stands beside the bodily conditions named in the verse, rather than depending on their disappearance.

ALSO GROWS

pisteuō: To trust, believe, or entrust oneself

πιστεύω

This verb expresses the trusting response that belongs to the same word-family.

pistos: Firm, steady; trustworthy

πιστός

This branch connects trust with steadiness, illuminating the verse’s contrast between bodily deadness and trust that is not weak.

THE PATTERN

A visible condition can be fully named without becoming the final boundary of a promise.

Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Genesis 18:14 · KJVThe promise names Sarah’s unlikely future while the visible limit remains in view.

Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

Ezekiel 37:5 · KJVThe bones are openly named as bones even as life is spoken over them.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Luke 1:37 · KJVThe verse places what appears impossible within the reach of what God can do.

THE THREAD

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

Romans 4:20 · KJV

Romans 4:20 returns to ⁨πίστις⁩ (pistis, “trust”) from the same Greek word-family and describes trust as not staggering at the promise. The thread pairs the shared death-root named in verse 19 with steadiness toward what is promised.

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