What Does Luke 24:1 Mean in the King James?
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
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 “sepulchre” belongs to the family of remembering: they arrive at a place that holds the dead in memory, carrying what they prepared for death.
THE MEANING
You arrive carrying preparations for an ending, at a place whose name belongs to remembrance. The scene holds grief and care as real, while the tomb is not yet shown to contain the whole meaning of what has happened.
THE ROOT
μνῆμα
mnēma
GROWS FROM
μνη
Memory, remembrance; the μνη- (mnē-) family evokes what is kept in mind.
The word translated “sepulchre” is μνῆμα (mnēma, tomb or memorial), from the same word family as memory and remembering. English can make the place sound only like a container for the dead; the Greek also carries the sense of a place that keeps someone in mind.
ALSO GROWS
mnēmē: memory, remembrance
μνήμη
This word names what a memorial holds: someone kept in mind.
mnēmoneuō: remember, keep in mind
μνημονεύω
This verb shows the same family at work as an act of remembering, connecting the tomb-word with the living act of memory.
THE PATTERN
A place marked by death can hold a promise of life beyond what the visible scene suggests.
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.THE THREAD
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:Luke’s μνῆμα (mnēma, tomb or memorial) and Peter’s ὑπόμνησις (hypomnēsis, remembrance) share the Greek μνη- family. The shared root links the place where the dead are remembered with remembrance as something actively held in mind.
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