What Does Luke 3:29 Mean in the King James?
Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi,
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 stacks “of” relationships where the KJV supplies “son of,” presenting this line as a chain of belonging.
THE MEANING
Jose, Eliezer, Jorim, Matthat, and Levi stand in a sequence, each name connected to the names around it. The verse presents a life as part of a continuing line, rather than as something self-contained.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a person stands apart from those who came before; this verse places each name within a continuing lineage.
THE ROOT
Λευί
Leuī
GROWS FROM
Λευι
The Greek name stem for Levi. The name’s Hebrew origin is associated with joining or attachment, as Leah’s naming explanation shows in Genesis 29:34.
The Greek text gives Levi as a name, not as a Greek common word with its own lexical root; Λευι is the name stem. Its Hebrew name-story carries the sense of joining, so the final name in this chain echoes the verse’s repeated relations.
ALSO GROWS
Leuítēs: Levite; a member of Levi’s line.
Λευίτης
This Greek form carries the same name stem into a word for someone belonging to Levi’s lineage.
Leuitikós: Levitical; pertaining to Levi or the Levites.
Λευιτικός
The same name stem marks what belongs to the line, extending the name into a shared identity.
THE PATTERN
A name and place in a family line are carried through relationships that extend beyond one person.
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;THE THREAD
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.Genesis gives the naming story behind Levi: “my husband be joined unto me.” That meaning of joining echoes the repeated relations in Luke’s line, where each name is held within a chain of belonging.
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