What Does Luke 12:52 Mean in the King James?
For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
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
A house can be shared even when its people no longer share a side.
THE MEANING
This verse names a fracture that reaches into the closest bonds: five people share one house while opposing one another. The dividing line runs through the household itself, with three against two and two against three. Closeness of place does not guarantee unity of allegiance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a common home guarantees a united household dissolves here.
THE ROOT
διαμερισμένοι
diamerismenoi
GROWS FROM
μερίζω (merizō), from μέρος (meros)
To divide or apportion; a μέρος (meros) is a part or share.
The word pictures people divided into portions, and the verse keeps all five inside one house. The division is within the shared household: each side stands against the other without ceasing to belong to the same home.
ALSO GROWS
meros: A part, portion, or share.
μέρος
The household is split into opposing shares, making the division concrete rather than distant.
merismos: Division or distribution.
μερισμός
This noun from the same word family names the division that the verb enacts among the people in the house.
THE PATTERN
Kinship can remain real while opposition breaks out between family members.
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.THE THREAD
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:The Greek noun translated “division” in verse 51 belongs to the same word family as “divided” in verse 52. The household split is the concrete shape of the division named just before it.
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