What Does Matthew 9:26 Mean?
And this report went out into all that land.
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 the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.THE KEY
“Fame” here is a report in motion: what happens keeps traveling through the people who hear of it.
THE MEANING
The report moves beyond those closest to the event and reaches the whole land. What happens continues outward as something people speak and hear.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that what witnesses see stays contained among them gives way: the report travels through the whole land.
THE ROOT
φήμη
phēmē
GROWS FROM
φημί
phēmi
to say, speak, or declare
“Fame” can sound like public status, but φήμη means a report: what is being said. Its root ties the event’s reach to speech itself, as the report moves from one person to another.
ALSO GROWS
phēmi: to say, declare
φημί
The base verb makes clear that the fame moving through the land is carried in what people say.
phasis: a saying, statement
φάσις
This related word also names spoken content, echoing how the event travels as a report.
THE PATTERN
What is witnessed or made known travels outward through speech beyond its point of origin.
Their measuring cord goes out through all the earth, and their words to the edge of the world; in them he set a tent for the sun.For we cannot keep from speaking what we have perceived and heard.But he went out and began to herald it much, and to spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer enter the city in plain sight, but stayed outside in the empty places, and they came to him from every side.THE THREAD
But they went out and spread his report through all that land.Here the healed men actively spread the fame that Matthew 9:26 describes as going abroad. The Greek verb for “spread abroad” shares the φημ- root of φήμη, the report itself.
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