What Does Luke 1:45 Mean in the King James?
And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse joins trust and completion: the word is trusted before its fulfillment is visible.
THE MEANING
She is flourishing because she trusts what the Lord has spoken to her, while its promised completion is still ahead. The verse names trust before visible fulfillment and holds the spoken word’s completion as its destination.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that the Lord’s word becomes trustworthy only after its fulfillment is visible.
THE ROOT
πιστεύσασα
pisteúsasa
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
trust, reliance on what is regarded as dependable
“believed” in this verse is pisteúsasa. The verb here carries the sense of trusting, not merely agreeing with a statement. Its word family also describes what is firm and reliable, showing trust resting on the dependability of the spoken word.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: trust, reliance
πίστις
This noun names the trust expressed by the verb in the verse.
pistos: firm, steady; reliable
πιστός
The word family links trusting with the quality of being dependable.
τελείωσις
teleíōsis
GROWS FROM
τελει-
telei-
bring to completion, make complete
The word translated “performance” carries the sense of fulfillment or completion. The spoken things are presented as moving toward their full realization, giving trust a destination beyond the moment of hearing.
ALSO GROWS
teleióō: bring to completion, complete
τελειόω
This verb shows the movement toward the completion named in the verse.
téleios: complete, mature
τέλειος
This related form describes the state reached when something has come to completion.
μακαρία
makaría
GROWS FROM
μακαρ-
makar-
flourishing
“blessed” in this verse is makaría. The word calls her flourishing in the present, while the promised completion remains ahead. Flourishing here is joined to trust in what has been spoken, not only to the later sight of its fulfillment.
ALSO GROWS
makários: flourishing
μακάριος
This related form carries the same description of a flourishing state.
makarízō: call flourishing, pronounce blessed
μακαρίζω
This verb makes explicit that the word can name someone as flourishing.
THE PATTERN
The Lord’s spoken word is held as moving toward fulfillment, and trust meets it before it is seen.
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.THE THREAD
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.Luke’s “believed” is πιστεύσασα (pisteúsasa, trusting), while Hebrews’ “faith” is πίστει (pístei, trust); both belong to the πιστ- word family. Hebrews brings that same trust together with Sarah receiving strength and a promised child, opening Luke’s pairing of trust with completion.
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