What Does Romans 9:9 Mean in the King James?
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
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 promise binds the speaker’s arrival to its outcome: “I will come,” and Sara shall have a son.
THE MEANING
The verse presents promise as a word with a time and a concrete result: a coming, and a son. It meets you now as an announcement shaped toward an actual outcome, not a vague possibility.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a promise is only hopeful speech with no appointed time or concrete result.
THE ROOT
ἐπαγγελία
epangelia
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ
angel-
To announce or carry a message.
The Greek word translated “promise” belongs to the family of announcing and message-bearing. Here, the promise is voiced as “I will come” and carries a definite result, “Sara shall have a son”, so announcement and outcome are held together.
ALSO GROWS
epangellomai: to announce, proclaim, or promise
ἐπαγγέλλομαι
This related verb makes the promise’s announcing character explicit.
angelos: messenger
ἄγγελος
The shared word family links a promise with a message carried or announced.
THE PATTERN
A spoken promise names an arrival, a time, and an outcome that becomes visible.
And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.THE THREAD
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.The Greek word translated “promise” in Romans and “promised” here belongs to the same announce-and-message word family. Hebrews shows that shared root in Sara’s story: the announced word is joined to its embodied result.
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