What Does Mark 7:29 Mean?
And he said to her, For this word, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter.
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 he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.THE KEY
The woman’s word is the hinge of a release already complete across the distance between mother and daughter.
THE MEANING
A woman’s answer is received as the point at which her daughter’s release is declared complete. They remain apart, yet the change is already present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this undoes is that release can happen only where the person being freed is physically present.
THE ROOT
λόγος
logos
GROWS FROM
λεγ-/λογ- (leg-/log-)
To say or speak; a word, statement, or account.
Jesus calls her answer a logos, a word or statement, and names it as the reason for her daughter’s release. “Saying” can sound like a mere phrase; logos holds the spoken answer and its meaning together.
ALSO GROWS
legō: To say, speak.
λέγω
This verbal form shows the speech inside logos: her answer is a spoken word, not an abstract idea.
logizomai: To reckon, consider, or account.
λογίζομαι
This related form carries the sense of considering or accounting for something, illuminating how Jesus treats her answer as consequential.
ἐξελήλυθεν
exelēlythen
GROWS FROM
ἔρχομαι (erchomai), with ἐκ (ek, out)
To come or go; with ek, to go out.
“gone out” in this verse is exelēlythen. The Greek perfect tense presents the going out as completed, with its result standing now. The demon’s departure is not merely beginning: the release is already accomplished.
ALSO GROWS
dierchomai: To pass through or go across.
διέρχομαι
It shares the movement-word erchomai and shows how compounds specify the direction or course of going.
parerchomai: To pass by or pass away.
παρέρχομαι
This related compound also describes movement reaching its end, bringing the completed departure in this verse into focus.
THE PATTERN
A spoken word is joined to change beyond the speaker’s sight.
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.He sends his word and heals them, and slips them free from their pits.The commander of a hundred answered and said, Lord, I am not enough for you to come under my roof, but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed.THE THREAD
The commander of a hundred answered and said, Lord, I am not enough for you to come under my roof, but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed.Both verses use logos, “word” or “statement,” alongside release or healing across a distance. In Mark, the woman’s word is named as the hinge; in Matthew, the centurion asks for a word that reaches his servant without Jesus entering the house.
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