What Does Luke 10:5 Mean in the King James?
And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
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 first thing carried across a doorway is wholeness, spoken over everyone who shares the house.
THE MEANING
When you enter a home, your first words are peace, wholeness offered to the people and shared life within it. The house is named as a place where that wholeness can rest.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Peace is only a private feeling; here it is spoken over an entire household.
THE ROOT
εἰρήνη
eirēnē
GROWS FROM
εἰρήν-
eirēn-
Peace, wholeness, and harmony.
“Peace” in this verse is eirēnē. The word carries more than a wish for quiet: it names wholeness offered to the whole house. The verse makes that wholeness the first thing spoken across its threshold.
ALSO GROWS
eirēneuō: To live in peace or be at peace.
εἰρηνεύω
The shared word family presents peace as a condition people can inhabit, not only a greeting they hear.
eirēnopoios: A peacemaker.
εἰρηνοποιός
The same word family can describe someone who makes peace, linking the spoken greeting with peace taking shape in a life.
οἶκος
oikos
GROWS FROM
οἰκ-
oik-
House, home, or household.
“House” in this verse is oikos. The word can point beyond a building to the household, the people and shared life within it. So the greeting reaches the life gathered under one roof, not just the structure.
ALSO GROWS
oikia: A house or household.
οἰκία
This related word keeps the sense of a home as a place and the people who belong to it.
oikoumenē: The inhabited world.
οἰκουμένη
The word family extends from the household to the world people inhabit, widening the sense of a home as lived space.
THE PATTERN
Peace is spoken as wholeness offered to people and places.
The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.THE THREAD
Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.The same Greek word, εἰρήνη (eirēnē, peace and wholeness), is spoken into a closed room where fear is present. Luke’s house greeting and John’s room greeting both make peace the first word spoken into a shared space.
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