What Does Luke 19:9 Mean in the King James?
And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
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
Deliverance is named as arriving at a household, and the person in it is named as belonging.
THE MEANING
Today, deliverance comes to the house in view, and the person addressed belongs within Abraham’s family. The verse holds arrival and belonging together in one present declaration: this house is a place where deliverance comes.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A house is disqualified from deliverance by the person in it; Jesus names this house as the place where deliverance has arrived.
THE ROOT
σωτηρία
sōtēria
GROWS FROM
σωτηρ
Deliverance and preservation; the saving family of words.
“salvation” in this verse is sōtēria. Greek σωτηρία names deliverance, while its word family also names the deliverer and what brings deliverance. Here it arrives at a named household as a present event.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēr: Deliverer, savior
σωτήρ
The same family names the one who delivers, joining deliverance with a deliverer.
sōtērios: Saving, bringing deliverance
σωτήριος
This branch describes what carries the quality of deliverance that has come to the house.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yēšūaʿ
GROWS FROM
ישע
Deliver, bring out of distress into spaciousness.
“Jesus” in this verse is Yēšūaʿ. The name Yeshua carries the nature of deliverance, from יָשַׁע (yasha), to deliver. Abraham’s name, אַבְרָהָם (Avraham), is linked in Genesis 17:5 with being father of a multitude, placing this declaration of deliverance beside a name of widening kinship.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: Deliver, bring to safety
יָשַׁע
The name’s root expresses the movement from distress toward spaciousness that resonates with deliverance arriving.
yeshuah: Deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun names the deliverance that the Greek σωτηρία also expresses in the verse.
moshia: Deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This branch names the one who brings deliverance, echoing the nature carried by the name Jesus.
οἴκῳ
oikō
GROWS FROM
οἰκ
House, dwelling, household.
“house” in this verse is oikō. The οἰκ family can name both a dwelling and the household living in it. Deliverance is spoken as arriving among the people and place gathered under one roof.
ALSO GROWS
oikía: House, home, household
οἰκία
This branch makes explicit the shared household sense carried by the house in the verse.
oikéō: Dwell, inhabit
οἰκέω
A house is the place where people dwell; the word family keeps the focus on an inhabited home.
oikodoméō: Build a house, build up
οἰκοδομέω
The same house-root appears in a word for building, linking the dwelling to what is built within it.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance is announced at a household threshold and gathers a household into its reach.
For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.THE THREAD
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.σωτηρία (sōtēria, deliverance) in this verse and σῶσαι (sōsai, to deliver) in the next belong to the Greek saving word family of σώζω (sōzō, deliver). The next verse names the movement behind this arrival: the one called lost is sought and delivered.
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