What Does Luke 1:77 Mean in the King James?
To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
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
Deliverance becomes known through release: what is missed can be let go without becoming your permanent name.
THE MEANING
Deliverance is becoming known to you through the release of what you have missed. The missing is acknowledged, yet it does not define you permanently; the verse places its release within the way deliverance is revealed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that your failures put you beyond deliverance dissolves here: release is how deliverance becomes known to God’s people.
THE ROOT
ἄφεσις
aphesis
GROWS FROM
ἀφίημι
aphiēmi
To let go, release, leave, or send away.
The word rendered “remission” belongs to the same word family as “release” and “let go.” Luke uses this same noun for “deliverance” and “liberty” in Luke 4:18, letting one Greek word open into freedoms English presents separately.
ALSO GROWS
aphiēmi: Let go, leave, forgive, or send away.
ἀφίημι
The verb gives remission the shape of an act of release.
aphesis: Release, remission, or liberty.
ἄφεσις
This noun’s range connects release from wrongdoing with release from captivity.
ἁμαρτιῶν
hamartiōn
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτάνω
hamartanō
To miss, fail to hit, or go wrong.
The word translated “sins” carries the sense of missing or going wrong. Joined to release, the verse names the miss without making it the reader’s final identity.
ALSO GROWS
hamartia: A missing, a miss, or wrongdoing.
ἁμαρτία
This noun names what is released in the verse.
hamartōlos: A sinner; one described as having missed or gone wrong.
ἁμαρτωλός
The word family can name a person by the miss, while this verse speaks of that miss being released.
σωτηρίας
sōtērias
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
To rescue, bring out of danger, or preserve.
“Salvation” here names deliverance: being brought out of danger. The verse links that deliverance with release, so the freedom is not abstract; it reaches what has gone wrong.
ALSO GROWS
sōzō: Rescue, deliver, or preserve.
σῴζω
The verb describes deliverance as an action that brings someone out.
sōtēr: A deliverer or rescuer.
σωτήρ
This related word gives deliverance the sense of being brought out by a rescuer.
THE PATTERN
What is missed or held in bondage can be released, opening a path into deliverance.
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;THE THREAD
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,Luke 4:18 uses ἄφεσις (aphesis), the same word rendered “remission” here, for both “deliverance” to captives and “liberty” for the bruised. The release named here reaches beyond the record of missing; it is the same word opening freedom where captivity and injury are present.
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