What Does Luke 12:34 Mean in the King James?
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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
Your heart follows the place where you have put your treasure.
THE MEANING
What you count as treasure shapes where your inner life resides. Your heart is found where what you prize is kept, and what you store there becomes its center.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that you can place your deepest value somewhere without letting it claim your inner life.
THE ROOT
θησαυρός
thēsauros
GROWS FROM
θησαυρ-
thēsaur-
A storehouse, or the treasure kept in it.
The Greek word holds both the treasure and its place of storage. What you keep gathering becomes the place your heart turns toward.
ALSO GROWS
thēsaurizō: To store up or lay up as treasure.
θησαυρίζω
The related verb makes clear that treasure is also something accumulated; the heart follows what is repeatedly stored.
apothēsaurizō: To store up as a treasure; rendered “laying up in store” in 1 Timothy 6:19.
ἀποθησαυρίζω
This related word connects treasure with deliberate storing, echoing the verse’s image of value having a place.
καρδία
kardia
GROWS FROM
καρδ-
kard-
Heart; the inner center of a person.
“heart” in this verse is kardia. Kardia reaches beyond emotion to the inner center from which a person perceives and responds. The verse says this center takes its place where value is held.
ALSO GROWS
kardiognōstēs: One who knows hearts.
καρδιογνώστης
This compound treats the heart as an inward center that can be known, not merely as a passing feeling.
sklērokardia: Hardness of heart.
σκληροκαρδία
This compound shows how the heart’s inner condition can shape a person’s response.
THE PATTERN
The heart’s center is revealed by what it holds and by what it brings forth.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.THE THREAD
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.Luke uses the same Greek word for “treasure,” θησαυρός (thēsauros), and places it within the heart. The verse then shows what comes out of that stored abundance: where value is held, expression emerges.
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