What Does Luke 13:13 Mean in the King James?
And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
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 Greek root behind “made straight” also appears in words for upright walking and straight paths, tying her restored body to a way reopened.
THE MEANING
The verse shows a bent body made upright through Jesus’ touch, and praise follows the change. Restoration is bodily and visible; no performance comes before it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that divine restoration concerns only an inward or symbolic life: here, the body itself is made straight.
THE ROOT
ἀνωρθώθη
anōrthōthē
GROWS FROM
ὀρθός
orthos
straight; upright
The verb describes her being set upright. Its root also appears in Greek words for walking uprightly and making a straight path, linking bodily restoration with movement along a way made straight.
ALSO GROWS
orthopodeō: to walk straight or upright
ὀρθοποδέω
Galatians 2:14 uses this word for walking uprightly; the shared root connects uprightness in the body with upright movement.
epanorthōsis: correction; setting right
ἐπανόρθωσις
This related form names setting something right, carrying the root’s image of what has been bent being restored.
ἐδόξαζεν
edoxazen
GROWS FROM
δόξα
doxa
weight; honor
“glorified” in this verse is edoxazen. The Greek word family centers on weight and honor: she gives weight to God in response to a concrete bodily change. A related form appears just afterward for the glorious deeds the crowd sees, linking praise with what has become visible.
ALSO GROWS
doxa: weight; honor
δόξα
This noun gives the root’s image of weight to her act of glorifying God.
endoxos: held in honor; glorious
ἔνδοξος
Luke uses this related word in verse 17 for the deeds witnessed by the crowd, tying recognition of God’s weight to visible action.
THE PATTERN
When the bent are raised, restoration becomes visible in the body and praise becomes its answer.
The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.THE THREAD
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.The word for “straight” here is ὀρθός (orthos), the same root carried in the verb describing her being made straight. Hebrews places straight paths beside lame feet and healing, extending the root from an upright body to a way made passable.
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