What Does Luke 1:47 Mean in the King James?
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
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 breath in you becomes the voice of joy when God is known as the one who brings you out.
THE MEANING
Your breath is the living self that can rejoice in God as deliverer. The verse joins joy to the recognition that God brings you out. Deliverance is present in the way God is named here.
THE ROOT
σωτήρ
sōtēr
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
To deliver, rescue, or preserve.
The title names God by the action of delivering. Greek keeps the title beside the verb it comes from, so “Saviour” carries the movement of bringing out.
ALSO GROWS
sōzō: Deliver, rescue, preserve.
σῴζω
This is the verb behind the title, revealing deliverance as an action.
sōtēria: Deliverance, rescue.
σωτηρία
This noun names the deliverance that the title “Saviour” embodies.
πνεῦμα
pneuma
GROWS FROM
πνέω
pneō
To breathe or blow.
The word translated “spirit” belongs to the same word family as breath and wind. The verse places joy in the living breath of the person, reopening what English can make sound like a separate, abstract faculty.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: Breathe, blow.
πνέω
The verb shows the breath-root carried inside “spirit.”
pnoē: Breath, a breath.
πνοή
This related word makes the breath connection explicit.
THE PATTERN
Joy rises when God is recognized as the source of deliverance, even before the outcome is seen.
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.THE THREAD
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.The title translated “Saviour” and the verb translated “save” belong to the same Greek word family. Where Luke 1:47 names God as deliverer, this verse shows that deliverance as seeking and bringing out the lost.
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