What Does Matthew 22:27 Mean?
And last of all the woman died also.
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 last of all the woman died also.THE KEY
The Greek verb belongs to the same word-family as “die together”: the woman stands inside the same mortal condition as the men.
THE MEANING
The woman reaches the same mortal limit as the seven men: the final word that applies to them reaches her too. The sequence of marriages ends at a shared human boundary, leaving the question of life beyond death exposed.
THE ROOT
ἀπέθανεν
apéthanen
GROWS FROM
θνῄσκω (thnēskō), with the aorist stem θα-/θαν-
To die.
“died” in this verse is apéthanen. The verb ἀπέθανεν is an aorist form of ἀποθνῄσκω (apothnēskō, “to die”), whose stem shifts between θνησκ- and θα-/θαν-. The same word-family can name dying together, and the verse’s “also” places the woman within that shared mortal condition.
ALSO GROWS
synapothnēskō: To die together.
συναποθνῄσκω
It shares the dying verb’s root and makes explicit the shared condition that the verse marks with “also.”
thanatos: Death.
θάνατος
This noun uses the related θα-/θαν- stem, naming the condition reached by the verb in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Every human life meets death as a shared boundary.
A time to bear, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.What man lives and does not see death? Will he slip his living soul out of the hand of the hollow? Selah.And as it is laid up for people to die once, and after this, judgment.THE THREAD
And as it is laid up for people to die once, and after this, judgment.Matthew’s ἀπέθανεν (apethanen, “died”) and Hebrews’ ἀποθανεῖν (apothanein, “to die”) belong to the same Greek verb family. Matthew shows that shared boundary reaching one woman; Hebrews names it as the common passage of human life.
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