What Does Matthew 1:22 Mean?
Now all of this came to be, so that what was spoken by the LORD through the prophet might be filled, saying,
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
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,THE KEY
Fulfillment is a spoken word arriving at fullness in what becomes visible.
THE MEANING
A word spoken by God does not remain abstract; it moves toward fullness in what becomes visible. What is unfolding before you is a place where the spoken word takes shape.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a divine word can remain inert, separate from lived reality.
THE ROOT
πληρωθῇ
plērōthē
GROWS FROM
πληρ
plēr
fill, make full, bring to full measure
“might be filled” in this verse is plērōthē. The verb carries the sense of filling something out to its fullness. Fulfillment here joins what is spoken with what becomes visible; the word is not merely checked off but brought into lived expression.
ALSO GROWS
plērēs: full, complete
πλήρης
This branch shows the sense of fullness carried within “fulfilled.”
plērōma: fullness, that which fills
πλήρωμα
It makes the connection between a spoken word and its fullness explicit: what was spoken comes to occupy its full measure.
THE PATTERN
A spoken word moves toward fullness as it takes shape in what happens.
So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to me empty, but shall do what I delight in, and shall break through in the thing to which I sent it.Do not think that I came to loosen the instruction or the prophets. I came not to loosen, but to fill.And he began to say to them, Today this writing has been filled in your ears.THE THREAD
And he began to say to them, Today this writing has been filled in your ears.Luke uses the same Greek verb, πληρόω (plēroō), for “fulfilled.” Its fullness reaches the hearing itself: the spoken word becomes present and recognizable.
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