What Does Luke 6:1 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
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
Sabbath and hunger occupy the same moment: rest does not make a body stop needing food.
THE MEANING
This verse keeps bodily need within the day set apart for rest: hunger remains real, and food is gathered by hand. Sacred time and the body’s need occupy the same scene.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that a day set apart leaves no room for ordinary bodily need.
THE ROOT
σαββάτῳ
sabbatō
GROWS FROM
σαββατ-
Sabbath; the day of cessation and rest.
“sabbath” in this verse is sabbatō. The Greek word σαββάτῳ belongs to the σαββατ- family, borrowed from Hebrew שָׁבַת (shavat, cease or rest). The name of the day opens onto the act of ceasing, and Luke places eating within that rest-frame.
ALSO GROWS
sabbatismos: Sabbath-rest
σαββατισμός
Hebrews 4:9 uses this noun for Sabbath-rest, showing the same σαββατ- family naming rest as well as the day.
sabbatizō: to keep or observe the Sabbath
σαββατίζω
This verb uses the same stem for the practice of setting the day apart through Sabbath observance.
σπορίμων
sporimōn
GROWS FROM
σπορ-
Seed, sowing, or what has been sown.
“corn” in this verse is sporimōn. The Greek word refers to sown fields, so the grain is named through the σπορ- family of seed and sowing. The food in the scene remains connected to its growth: what was sown is now gathered and eaten.
ALSO GROWS
sporos: seed
σπόρος
It shares the σπορ- stem and names the seed from which a sown field grows.
spora: sowing or seed-sowing
σπορά
It shares the same consonants and names the act that gives rise to the field in the verse.
χερσίν
chersin
GROWS FROM
χειρ-
Hand.
The Greek places the rubbing directly in the disciples’ hands. The χειρ- family extends from the hand itself into words for handmade things and handwork, keeping the action embodied and close: they pluck, rub, and eat.
ALSO GROWS
cheiropoiētos: made by hand
χειροποίητος
The compound preserves χειρ-, making the hand explicit as the means by which something is made.
cheirourgos: one who works by hand
χειρουργός
This word shares χειρ- and names action carried out through the hand, echoing the physical work in the verse.
THE PATTERN
A day set apart for rest can still hold the body’s need for provision.
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:THE THREAD
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:Mark uses the same Greek word, σάββατον (sabbaton, Sabbath), so Luke’s field scene sits inside the same claim: Sabbath is ordered toward human life. The disciples’ hunger remains present within that day, holding rest and bodily need in one frame.
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