What Does Luke 17:27 Mean in the King James?
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
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 flood arrives while people are still living ordinary lives, so routine and total destruction meet at one boundary.
THE MEANING
The verse holds daily rhythms, eating, drinking, marrying, beside total destruction. Ordinary activity continues until Noah enters the ark; then the flood comes and destroys them all. The movement is abrupt: the text gives no gradual transition from routine to catastrophe.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the lie that an uninterrupted routine proves the world around you is secure.
THE ROOT
ἀπώλεσεν
apōlesen
GROWS FROM
ἀπόλλυμι
apollymi
To lose, ruin, or destroy; to bring to perishing.
This Greek word family can name both losing and destroying: here, loss reaches the force of ruin. “Destroyed” holds the full weight of the verse, while the same root elsewhere names what is lost.
ALSO GROWS
apōleia: Loss, ruin, destruction.
ἀπώλεια
This noun carries the same word family from the act of destruction to the condition of loss.
apolōlōs: Having perished or been lost.
ἀπολωλώς
This form names the state that follows the verb’s destructive action.
ἐγαμίζοντο
egamizonto
GROWS FROM
γαμ-
gam-
Marriage; the act of marrying or giving in marriage.
The Greek places ἐγάμουν (egamoun, “they were marrying”) beside ἐγαμίζοντο (egamizonto, “they were being given in marriage”); both carry the γαμ- root. Their repetition makes marriage part of the uninterrupted ordinary life that continues up to the flood.
ALSO GROWS
gamos: Marriage or wedding.
γάμος
This noun shares the γαμ- root and names the social bond present in the verse.
gameō: To marry.
γαμέω
This verb shares the root behind the verse’s paired forms of marrying.
נֹחַ
Noaḥ
GROWS FROM
נוח
n-w-ḥ
To rest, settle, or come to rest.
“Noe” in this verse is Noaḥ. The Hebrew name נֹחַ (Noaḥ, Noah) is commonly associated with נוח (nûaḥ, “to rest” or “settle”); Genesis 5:29 also echoes the name with נָחַם (nāḥam, “to comfort”). Here the name marks the hinge: Noah enters the ark before the flood comes.
ALSO GROWS
menūḥāh: Rest or a resting place.
מְנוּחָה
This noun comes from the same Hebrew root and carries its sense of rest.
mānōaḥ: A place of rest or repose.
מָנוֹחַ
This word shares the root and gives rest the sense of a place where one can settle.
THE PATTERN
A sudden threshold can arrive while ordinary life continues.
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.THE THREAD
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.Luke’s ἀπώλεσεν (apōlesen, “destroyed”) and Matthew’s ἀπολέσει / ἀπολέσας (apolesei / apolesas, “lose” / “loseth”) belong to the same Greek verb family, ἀπόλλυμι (apollymi). That shared root joins destruction and loss in the language while the verses hold their distinct scenes.
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