What Does Romans 7:8 Mean in the King James?
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
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 commandment becomes the missing’s launch point, so the boundary that names the line becomes an opening through which desire multiplies.
THE MEANING
The verse names a living mechanism: the missing takes the commandment as an opening and produces many desires in you. Without the law, the missing lies dead; when the boundary speaks, its activity becomes visible and forceful.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that naming a boundary automatically cures the desire it names; the verse shows the missing can turn that very command into an opening.
THE ROOT
ἐπιθυμία
epithymia
GROWS FROM
ἐπιθυμέω
epithymeō
To desire, long for, or covet.
“concupiscence, desire” in this verse is epithymia. The word translated “concupiscence” belongs to the same family as “covet” in Romans 7:7. The commandment names the desire, and the next verse shows the missing turning that command into an opening for more desire.
ALSO GROWS
epithymeō: To desire or covet.
ἐπιθυμέω
This verb supplies “covet” in Romans 7:7, linking the commandment’s prohibition directly to the desire described here.
epithymētēs: One who desires.
ἐπιθυμητής
In 1 Corinthians 10:6, this word describes people by what they desire, showing how this word family reaches beyond a single act of wanting.
ἀφορμή
aphormē
GROWS FROM
ὁρμή
hormē
An onset, impulse, or point from which movement begins.
“Occasion” carries the sense of a starting point or launch point. The commandment becomes the point from which the missing surges into desire; it is not merely a time or circumstance when sin happens.
ALSO GROWS
hormaō: To rush forth or set out.
ὁρμάω
This related verb makes the forward motion inside “occasion” visible: the missing moves from the commandment into desire.
hormē: An onset or impulse.
ὁρμή
This related noun carries the force of a beginning impulse, illuminating how the commandment becomes a launching point.
ἁμαρτία
hamartia
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτάνω
hamartanō
To miss or err.
The word behind “sin” belongs to a family of missing and erring. Here the missing is portrayed as an active force that seizes an opening and produces desire, rather than as a rule written on a page.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: To miss or err.
ἁμαρτάνω
The verb gives the word family its sense of missing, showing the movement beneath the English label.
hamartōlos: A sinner, one characterized by missing.
ἁμαρτωλός
This branch applies the same word family to a person, showing that the missing can shape a person’s way of being.
THE PATTERN
A named boundary can expose desire, while desire becomes a route through which the missing gains movement.
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.THE THREAD
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.The same word for “occasion” appears here: the commandment becomes the launch point the missing uses. This verse carries the movement in Romans 7:8 further, from multiplied desire to deception and death.
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