What Does Luke 4:28 Mean in the King James?
And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
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
What enters the ear can fill a whole room with heat without opening it.
THE MEANING
When a word reaches a defended boundary, the listener can hear it and still be filled with anger. Here, the room’s response becomes collective heat instead of welcome.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Hearing is not the same as receiving: a person can take in the words and respond by tightening around a boundary.
THE ROOT
θυμοῦ
thymou
GROWS FROM
θυμ-
thym-
Anger, heat, or fierce inward impulse.
“wrath” in this verse is thymou. The Greek word carries anger as inward heat, not merely as a judgment someone holds. Its word family also reaches toward pondering and being disheartened, showing how an inward response can stir, intensify, or sink; here, that heat fills the listeners together.
ALSO GROWS
enthumeomai: ponder, consider
ἐνθυμέομαι
This related word names inward consideration; Luke’s phrase shows the words they hear becoming an intense inward response.
athymeō: lose heart, become disheartened
ἀθυμέω
This related word describes a different inward state in the same word family, making the anger here one form of an inner response.
THE PATTERN
When mercy crosses a boundary someone guards, welcome can be answered with anger.
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.THE THREAD
And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.Acts 19:28 uses the same Greek word, θυμός (thymos, anger or heat), and again places it after hearing: a word fills a crowd with wrath. The repeated phrase reveals how hearing can become shared fury.
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