What Does Luke 20:30 Mean in the King James?
And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
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 Greek word for “childless” names the absence of what is brought forth, making this death a break in lineage as well as the end of a life.
THE MEANING
A marriage does not guarantee descendants: the second man takes the woman as his wife and dies without a child. The verse holds that interrupted continuity in plain view, without giving a cause or a remedy.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that marriage guarantees a continuing family line.
THE ROOT
ἄτεκνος
áteknos
GROWS FROM
τεκ- (tek-), related to τίκτω (tíktō)
To bring forth or beget; τέκνον (téknon) means a child or offspring.
ἄτεκνος joins the privative prefix ἀ- (a-, without) to the word for child: literally, without offspring. English “childless” can sound like a personal lack, while the Greek also makes visible the interrupted act of bringing forth.
ALSO GROWS
téknon: Child, offspring
τέκνον
This is the word for what the man dies without; it connects childlessness to the family line that might have been brought forth.
tíktō: Bear, give birth
τίκτω
This related verb names bringing forth, the action whose result is absent in “childless.”
THE PATTERN
The end of one mortal line does not set the limit of life.
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:THE THREAD
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.Luke uses τέκνον (téknon, “child”) in both passages: here the man dies ἄτεκνος (áteknos, “without a child”), and there the couple has no τέκνον. The shared word connects two scenes of childlessness, while Luke 1 goes on to describe a child being born.
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