What Does Mark 1:29 Mean?
And straightway, when they had come out of the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.THE KEY
The scene moves from a place named for gathering into a household named by dwelling, carrying the gathering across a home’s threshold.
THE MEANING
You see the movement carry Jesus and his companions from public assembly into Simon and Andrew’s home. The verse holds both settings in one continuous scene, with the household inside the same life of encounter as the synagogue.
THE ROOT
οἰκίαν
oikian
GROWS FROM
οἰκ-
οἰκ- (oik-): the word-family stem for house and dwelling.
The KJV’s “house” can sound like a building alone, while οἰκίαν (oikian, “house”) belongs to the οἰκ- (oik-, “house/dwelling”) family, which includes οἶκος (oikos, “house/household”) and οἰκέω (oikeō, “dwell/inhabit”). The verse names people with the home and brings the group into their dwelling, making it a lived place rather than a bare location.
ALSO GROWS
oikos: House; household.
οἶκος
This related word holds the building and the household within one family, illuminating the named home as a place where people live.
oikeō: Dwell; inhabit.
οἰκέω
The same stem describes living in a place, making the house a dwelling the group enters.
συναγωγῆς
synagōgēs
GROWS FROM
ἀγ-
ἀγ- (ag-): the word-family stem in ἄγω (agō), “lead” or “bring.”
The KJV’s “synagogue” comes from συναγωγή (synagōgē, “assembly”), formed from συν- (syn-, “together”) and the family of ἄγω (agō, “lead/bring”). The movement begins at a place named for gathering, then carries the people into a dwelling.
ALSO GROWS
agō: Lead; bring.
ἄγω
This verb supplies the bringing sense within the word-family behind the synagogue.
synagō: Gather; bring together.
συνάγω
This related form makes the gathering sense of the synagogue word-family visible.
THE PATTERN
Household life remains a setting for encounter and shared devotion alongside public gathering.
And if it seems evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you settle. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.And they, holding fast day by day with one passion in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, took their food with gladness and singleness of heart.THE THREAD
And again he entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that he was in the house.Mark uses οἴκῳ (oikō, “house”), from the same οἰκ- (oik-, “house/dwelling”) family as οἰκίαν (oikian, “house”) here. The house entered in this verse becomes the setting for another arrival, and the scene soon draws a crowd inside.
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