What Does Luke 2:21 Mean in the King James?
And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
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 name Jesus is spoken before conception because deliverance is present before its evidence appears.
THE MEANING
Here, a name carries its meaning before the life bearing it can be seen. Jesus carries the name Yeshua, deliverance; the verse places that meaning before conception and repeats it on the eighth day. For you, meaning can be present before its full shape appears.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that deliverance becomes real only once a change can be seen: here, its name is spoken before conception.
THE ROOT
ἐκλήθη
eklēthē
GROWS FROM
καλ-
Call, summon, or give a name.
“was called” in this verse is eklēthē. The verb for naming belongs to the same Greek family as calling and summoning. Here, that call is already spoken before conception, so the name precedes the life becoming visible.
ALSO GROWS
kaleō: Call, summon, name.
καλέω
The verb from which ἐκλήθη comes shares the same consonantal stem; naming is an act of calling.
klēsis: Calling, summons.
κλῆσις
This related noun preserves the root’s k-l consonants and makes the connection between a call and a named life audible.
epikaleō: Call upon, invoke, name.
ἐπικαλέω
This compound keeps the καλέω (kaleō) stem: a name is voiced as a call.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yēšūaʿ
GROWS FROM
ישע
Deliver; bring out of constriction into spaciousness.
The Hebrew and Aramaic name behind Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous, Jesus) is יֵשׁוּעַ (Yēšūaʿ, deliverance), from the root יָשַׁע (yashaʿ, deliver). The name makes deliverance the nature carried into the world, spoken before that life can display its work.
ALSO GROWS
yashaʿ: Deliver, bring out.
יָשַׁע
This verb is the root’s action: movement out of constriction into spaciousness.
yeshuʿah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun names the deliverance held in יֵשׁוּעַ (Yēšūaʿ, Jesus).
moshiaʿ: Deliverer.
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This word names the one who carries out the root’s act of bringing out.
THE PATTERN
A name or calling can be spoken before the life and work it names become visible.
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,THE THREAD
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.The word translated “salvation” is יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuʿah, deliverance), from the same root ישע as יֵשׁוּעַ (Yēšūaʿ, Jesus). Isaiah gives the name’s root a voice: deliverance is already present in the name before its work can be seen.
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