What Does Luke 2:11 Mean in the King James?
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
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 verse makes deliverance personal: the one born unto you is the Deliverer, the Anointed One.
THE MEANING
Deliverance meets you now as a person born unto you. The Anointed One comes near as Lord, and the city of David carries the name-nature of the beloved.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that deliverance is distant or reserved for someone else: the words are “unto you” and “this day.”
THE ROOT
σωτήρ
sōtēr
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
To deliver, rescue, or bring safely through.
“Saviour” in this verse is sōtēr. The title grows from σῴζω (sōzō), “to deliver.” It names the one whose nature is to bring you out and through; the rescue is not merely an event but someone who comes near to you.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēria: Deliverance.
σωτηρία
The noun names the deliverance that the Saviour embodies.
diasōzō: Bring safely through.
διασῴζω
This compound keeps the same deliverance motion and makes its passage through danger visible.
Χριστός
Christos
GROWS FROM
χρίω
chriō
To anoint.
“Christ” carries the act of anointing inside it: this is the Anointed One, not a surname. The verse joins deliverance to a nature set apart for its work.
ALSO GROWS
chrisma: Anointing.
χρίσμα
It keeps the root’s image of anointing visible as an act.
Christos: The Anointed One.
Χριστός
The title in the verse names the one marked by that act.
דָּוִד
Dāwīd
GROWS FROM
דוד
d-w-d
Beloved; beloved one.
“David” in this verse is Dāwīd. The city is identified by the name of the beloved. That name makes the setting more than a location: the Deliverer arrives within the nature of belovedness.
ALSO GROWS
dōd: Beloved.
דּוֹד
This root meaning opens the name David as more than a label.
dōdî: My beloved.
דּוֹדִי
The possessive form makes the root’s affection personal, echoing the verse’s “unto you.”
THE PATTERN
Deliverance draws near to people in their need and brings them through into a wider life.
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.The Greek verb σῴζω (sōzō), “to deliver,” is the verbal root behind σωτήρ (sōtēr), “Saviour.” Luke 2:11 names who the Deliverer is; this verse shows him seeking and bringing the lost through.
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