What Does Romans 9:27 Mean?
Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel, "Even if the number of the children of Israel is like the sand of the sea, what is left behind will be delivered."
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
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:THE KEY
The verse holds abundance and deliverance apart: a multitude can be counted like sea-sand while a remnant is brought through.
THE MEANING
The verse places the multitude of Israel’s children beside a remnant that is delivered. Number and deliverance are not the same measure: the verse holds the promise in the portion brought through.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A vast number by itself guarantees that everyone in the multitude is delivered.
THE ROOT
σωθήσεται
sōthēsetai
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
Deliver, rescue, preserve, bring safely through.
The form here means “will be delivered”: the remnant is brought through. In this Greek word family, the verb, the deliverer, and deliverance share a root, keeping the focus on being carried out of danger.
ALSO GROWS
sōzō: Rescue, preserve, bring safely through.
σῴζω
This is the verb’s base form and names the deliverance the remnant receives.
sōtēr: One who rescues or brings through.
σωτήρ
The same word family names the one who brings deliverance.
sōtēria: Rescue or deliverance.
σωτηρία
The noun names the outcome carried by the verb in this verse.
ὑπόλειμμα
hypóleimma
GROWS FROM
λείπω
leípō
Leave, be left, remain.
“what is left behind” in this verse is hypóleimma. The Greek word for “remnant” is what remains or is left behind. Its root also appears in words for what is lacking, so the remnant carries both residue and absence: what remains after the multitude is not carried through as a whole.
ALSO GROWS
leimma: What remains; a remainder.
λεῖμμα
It names the portion left after the whole is not present.
kataleípō: Leave or abandon something behind.
καταλείπω
It makes the root’s sense of what is left behind explicit.
elleípō: Be short of, or fall short of, something.
ἐλλείπω
The same root family can describe what is absent as well as what remains.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance can carry a remnant through when the multitude does not pass through together.
For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them will turn back. The running out, decreed, will overflow with alignment.who once refused to yield, while the slowness to heat of God waited in the days of Noah, as the ark was being built, in which few, eight living souls, were delivered through water.So also now, in this present season, there is a remnant left behind, picked out by favor.THE THREAD
And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, the LORD's deliverance, for he will deliver his people from their missing.Romans uses σωθήσεται (sōthēsetai, “will be delivered”); Matthew uses σώσει (sōsei, “will deliver”). Both forms come from σῴζω (sōzō, “deliver”), linking the remnant brought through here with the deliverance named in Jesus’ nature.
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