What Does Luke 18:20 Mean in the King James?
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
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 final command reveals that knowing what is right includes assigning real worth to the people from whom your life begins.
THE MEANING
The verse places your knowledge alongside concrete boundaries around fidelity, life, property, truth, and the worth of father and mother. Its final command gives honor a positive form: your parents carry value in your relational world.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that right conduct is only a matter of avoiding harm: this verse includes recognizing the worth of father and mother among the commands you know.
THE ROOT
τίμα
tíma
GROWS FROM
τιμ-
tim-
Value, price, worth; to honor.
“Honour” in this verse is tíma. The Greek word for honor carries the sense of assigning value. The command places the worth of father and mother among the concrete realities this verse says you know.
ALSO GROWS
timē: Value, price, worth, honor.
τιμή
It shows that honor concerns the worth assigned to a person, not only outward courtesy.
timios: Valuable, precious, honored.
τίμιος
This branch makes visible the link between honoring someone and recognizing that person as precious.
οἶδας
oídas
GROWS FROM
εἴδω
eídō
See, perceive; οἶδα carries the sense of having seen into knowing.
“knowest” in this verse is oídas. The opening word frames knowledge as recognition already present. The verse then gives that recognition a concrete scope: fidelity, life, property, truth, and family relationship.
ALSO GROWS
eîdon: I saw; they saw.
εἶδον
Its sense of seeing helps explain the perception carried into οἶδας, “you know.”
eîdos: Form, appearance, that which is seen.
εἶδος
This related word keeps the root’s connection to perception in view as the verse addresses what you already recognize.
THE PATTERN
Biblical honor makes a relationship’s worth visible in how it is treated.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.THE THREAD
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.Luke’s Greek τίμα (tíma, “honor, value”) names worth; Exodus’s Hebrew כַּבֵּד (kabbed, “honor”), from כבד (kāḇaḏ, “be weighty”), gives that worth weight. Together, the word pictures open the command as more than courtesy: father and mother carry value and weight.
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