What Does Luke 21:30 Mean in the King James?
When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
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 first signs of change make what is coming near knowable now, through what you can see for yourself.
THE MEANING
You can recognize the season while it is still approaching. The tree’s new growth makes that nearness visible, and your own seeing becomes a way of knowing. What is coming is already legible in the change before you.
THE ROOT
γινώσκετε
ginōskete
GROWS FROM
γινώσκω
to know or recognize
“know” in this verse is ginōskete. Here, knowing is joined to seeing: the tree’s growth lets you perceive what is near for yourself. The verse presents discernment as something the visible change can awaken, not as information that must arrive from elsewhere.
ALSO GROWS
gnōsis: knowledge
γνῶσις
It shares the knowing family and shows how perception becomes what is known.
gnōrizō: make known, recognize
γνωρίζω
It carries knowing toward recognition, echoing how the tree’s visible change makes the season recognizable.
προβάλωσιν
probalōsin
GROWS FROM
βάλλω
to throw, cast, or put forth
“shoot forth” in this verse is probalōsin. The verb for the trees’ new growth carries the sense of putting something forward. The season’s approach becomes visible as the tree puts its change outward, where it can be seen and understood.
ALSO GROWS
proballō: put forward, put forth
προβάλλω
It is the verb’s uninflected form and names the outward emergence described in the verse.
ekballō: cast or drive out
ἐκβάλλω
It shows the same verbal root carrying movement outward, clarifying the directional force behind putting forth.
THE PATTERN
Visible change in the present reveals the season that is coming near.
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.THE THREAD
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:Both verses pair the fig tree’s new growth with knowing that summer is near. Matthew shows the same pattern: the season becomes recognizable through the tree’s visible change.
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