What Does Luke 19:38 Mean in the King James?
Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
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 King comes in the Lord’s name, so his arrival bears the nature of the One named.
THE MEANING
The King’s arrival bears the Lord’s nature through the name he comes in. Its announcement names wholeness in heaven and weight in the highest. The reader meets this coming as a present disclosure of the character and order it carries.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A king’s title can be separated from his nature. Here, coming in the Lord’s name binds the arrival to the Lord’s character.
THE ROOT
ὄνομα
onoma
GROWS FROM
ὀνοματ-
onomat-
Name or designation; here, the name carries the nature of the one named.
“In the name of the Lord” carries more than an identifying label: it joins the King’s arrival to the Lord’s character. The verse names the King by the nature he bears.
ALSO GROWS
onomazō: To name or designate.
ὀνομάζω
Naming identifies whose character the King’s arrival bears.
onomastos: Named, renowned.
ὀνομαστός
The branch links a name with the character by which someone is known.
εἰρήνη
eirēnē
GROWS FROM
εἰρην-
eirēn-
Peace, concord, well-being; its Hebrew conceptual counterpart is שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness), from שלם (š-l-m, completeness).
The cry’s εἰρήνη (eirēnē, peace) opens into wholeness. Its Hebrew counterpart שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness), from שלם (š-l-m, completeness), lets the phrase name a whole condition in heaven alongside the King’s coming.
ALSO GROWS
eirēneuō: To live in peace or be at peace.
εἰρηνεύω
This branch shows peace as a condition that can be lived in, not only a spoken wish.
eirēnopoios: Peacemaker.
εἰρηνοποιός
The branch connects wholeness with the work of making peace.
δόξα
doxa
GROWS FROM
δοξ-
dox-
Honor, reputation, or glory; its Hebrew counterpart כָּבוֹד (kavod, weight) comes from כבד (k-b-d, heaviness or weight).
The Greek word names glory and honor, while its Hebrew counterpart כָּבוֹד (kavod, weight) adds the sense of what carries weight. Together they make the highest’s glory both recognized and weighty in the King’s arrival.
ALSO GROWS
doxazō: To glorify or honor.
δοξάζω
This branch describes giving recognition to the weight named in the verse.
endoxos: Honored, distinguished, glorious.
ἔνδοξος
This branch joins glory with the standing or honor that is recognized.
THE PATTERN
The coming King is recognized through public blessing that names his arrival and the wholeness and glory bound to it.
Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.THE THREAD
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.Luke 2:14 uses the same Greek words εἰρήνη (eirēnē, peace/wholeness) and δόξα (doxa, glory/weight), placing peace on earth and glory in the highest. Here the crowd declares peace in heaven, so the repeated words link the King’s entry with the birth announcement while shifting where peace is named.
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