What Does Romans 9:27 Mean in the King James?
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall 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 verse holds abundance and deliverance apart: a multitude can be counted like sea-sand while a remnant is brought through.
THE MEANING
The verse places the multitude of Israel’s children beside a remnant that is delivered. Number and deliverance are not the same measure: the verse holds the promise in the portion brought through.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A vast number by itself guarantees that everyone in the multitude is delivered.
THE ROOT
σωθήσεται
sōthēsetai
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
Deliver, rescue, preserve, bring safely through.
“saved” in this verse is sōthēsetai. The form here means “will be delivered”: the remnant is brought through. In this Greek word family, the verb, the deliverer, and deliverance share a root, keeping the focus on being carried out of danger.
ALSO GROWS
sōzō: Rescue, preserve, bring safely through.
σῴζω
This is the verb’s base form and names the deliverance the remnant receives.
sōtēr: One who rescues or brings through.
σωτήρ
The same word family names the one who brings deliverance.
sōtēria: Rescue or deliverance.
σωτηρία
The noun names the outcome carried by the verb in this verse.
ὑπόλειμμα
hypóleimma
GROWS FROM
λείπω
leípō
Leave, be left, remain.
The Greek word for “remnant” is what remains or is left behind. Its root also appears in words for what is lacking, so the remnant carries both residue and absence: what remains after the multitude is not carried through as a whole.
ALSO GROWS
leimma: What remains; a remainder.
λεῖμμα
It names the portion left after the whole is not present.
kataleípō: Leave or abandon something behind.
καταλείπω
It makes the root’s sense of what is left behind explicit.
elleípō: Be short of, or fall short of, something.
ἐλλείπω
The same root family can describe what is absent as well as what remains.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance can carry a remnant through when the multitude does not pass through together.
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.THE THREAD
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.Romans uses σωθήσεται (sōthēsetai, “will be delivered”); Matthew uses σώσει (sōsei, “will deliver”). Both forms come from σῴζω (sōzō, “deliver”), linking the remnant brought through here with the deliverance named in Jesus’ nature.
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