What Does Luke 24:3 Mean in the King James?
And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
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 verb turns the failed search into its own discovery: what the women find is that the body is not there.
THE MEANING
The reader stands where expectation meets absence: the body of Jesus is not found. The absence is concrete and bodily, yet it does not close the story; it marks the point where death’s expected hold gives way to a different possibility.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a missing body can mean only an ending: here, the absence opens onto a life death cannot retain.
THE ROOT
εὗρον
heuron
GROWS FROM
εὑρ-
The Greek stem for finding and discovering.
The verb εὗρον (heuron), “they found,” belongs to the εὑρ- family of finding and discovery, but the negation governs the act: they discover that the body is absent. The verse makes absence the content of discovery without making it the end of the story.
ALSO GROWS
heuriskō: find, discover
εὑρίσκω
This is the present form underlying εὗρον: the verse describes a search whose expected object is not found.
heurēma: a thing found; a discovery
εὕρημα
This noun names what a search yields; here, the discovery is the body’s absence.
heuretēs: discoverer; inventor
εὑρετής
This agent word names one who discovers; the women’s search instead yields the discovery of an absence.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
י־שׁ־ע
Deliverance: bringing out from constriction into spaciousness.
“Jesus” in this verse is Yeshua. The Greek name Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous) reflects Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua), from the י־שׁ־ע family of deliverance. The verse holds that name-nature beside the body’s absence, so the apparent finality of death does not exhaust what the name carries.
ALSO GROWS
yāshaʿ: deliver, bring to safety
יָשַׁע
This verb names the deliverance carried in the name Jesus.
yeshuʿah: deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun makes the name’s root meaning explicit: the body that is missing belongs to the one whose name carries deliverance.
hôshîaʿ: he delivered
הוֹשִׁיעַ
This form shows the root as deliverance enacted, not merely named.
THE PATTERN
Death’s apparent claim is not final; the grave’s hold gives way to the life God raises.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:THE THREAD
And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.Luke 15:6 uses the same Greek finding verb, εὗρον (heuron), for the shepherd’s discovery of the lost sheep. Here the verb is negated: the women do not find the body, and that absence becomes the discovery at the center of the scene.
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