What Does Luke 4:13 Mean in the King James?
And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
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 Slanderer leaves only until a season, so the end of this temptation is an interval, not a final ending.
THE MEANING
What you face as temptation can truly end; the verse still sets that ending within a season, with another encounter possible. A period without pressure is real, but it does not itself mean every future test has vanished.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The pause in pressure means the struggle is permanently over.
THE ROOT
καιροῦ
kairou
GROWS FROM
καιρ-
kair-
A fitting or appointed time; an opportune moment or season.
“season” in this verse is kairou. The Greek καιρός (kairos, a fitting or opportune time) can name a moment that arrives, not only a duration on a clock. The departure is bounded by what comes next: the encounter has ended for now, while another occasion remains possible.
ALSO GROWS
kairos: A season, fitting time, or opportune moment.
καιρός
This is the noun used in the verse; it makes the departure temporary.
eukairia: A favorable opportunity.
εὐκαιρία
This related word shows how καιρ- can carry the sense of a moment presenting itself.
akairos: Untimely or out of season.
ἄκαιρος
Its contrast with καιρός makes the root’s sense of timing visible.
πειρασμόν
peirasmon
GROWS FROM
πειρα-
peira-
To try, test, or put to proof.
The word πειρασμός (peirasmos, testing or temptation) belongs to a family that holds both a test and an enticement. The English word can sound only like an invitation to do wrong, while the Greek also lets the verse name an ordeal that is being undergone and brought to its end.
ALSO GROWS
peirazō: To try, test, or tempt.
πειράζω
This verb shares the word family and shows that the encounter can be both a test and an enticement.
peira: An attempt, trial, or experience.
πεῖρα
This related noun keeps the sense of undergoing a test alongside the sense of being enticed.
διάβολος
diabolos
GROWS FROM
βάλλω (ballō), with διά (dia)
βάλλω (ballō) means to throw or cast; διά (dia) contributes the sense of across or through in the compound.
“the devil” in this verse is diabolos. διάβολος (diabolos, the Slanderer) names the adversary by the nature of accusation. Its related verb διαβάλλω (diaballō, to slander or accuse) connects the name with accusation cast between parties; here that presence leaves, but only for an interval.
ALSO GROWS
ballō: To throw or cast.
βάλλω
This verbal base gives the compound its image of casting.
diaballō: To slander or accuse.
διαβάλλω
This related verb brings out the accusatory nature carried by διάβολος (diabolos, the Slanderer).
THE PATTERN
Testing comes in encounters, while endurance spans the intervals between them.
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.THE THREAD
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.Luke uses πειρασμός (peirasmos, testing or temptation); Hebrews uses πειράζω (peirazō, to test or tempt), from the same word family. Hebrews opens Luke’s brief account into a fuller field of testing and keeps clear the distinction between being tempted and sinning.
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