What Does Luke 4:19 Mean in the King James?
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
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 “acceptable year” is a season of the Lord’s welcome, announced as good news in the reader’s present.
THE MEANING
The Lord’s favorable time is proclaimed as an opening into welcome and release. The announcement speaks now to the reader: favor is not confined to a remote future.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that God’s favor belongs only to some distant season.
THE ROOT
δεκτόν
dektón
GROWS FROM
δεκ- (from δέχομαι, dékhomai)
To receive or welcome; hence, welcome or favorable.
Beneath “acceptable” is the sense of being welcome or favorably received. This receiving-family makes the announced year more than a date: it is a time marked by the Lord’s favor.
ALSO GROWS
dékhomai: To receive or welcome.
δέχομαι
This verb shares the root and brings out the welcome within the announcement of a favorable year.
apodékhomai: To welcome or receive gladly.
ἀποδέχομαι
This related form makes the receptive sense explicit and deepens the image of favor being welcomed.
THE PATTERN
The Lord’s favor is proclaimed as a present opening into release and restoration.
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)THE THREAD
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)“Accepted” here uses the same Greek word family as δεκτόν (dektón, welcome or favorable) in Luke. The word “now” brings the force of that welcome into the reader’s present.
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