What Does Luke 6:10 Mean in the King James?
And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
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 other hand is not incidental: it makes restoration visible as the return of the impaired hand to the body’s own wholeness.
THE MEANING
Your impairment does not become the whole body’s identity: the scene brings the hand into full view and measures its restoration against the sound hand beside it. The limb becomes sound in the same body, so wholeness appears as restored participation in what is already there.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The impaired part is permanently outside wholeness and must stay hidden from view.
THE ROOT
ἀπεκατεστάθη
apekatestathē
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι
histēmi
stand; set in place
The verb ἀπεκατεστάθη (apekatestathē, “was restored”) comes from ἀποκαθίστημι (apokathistēmi, “restore; re-establish”), built on ἵστημι (histēmi, “stand; set”). Restoration carries the sense of re-establishment: the impaired hand is set back into soundness, and the other hand makes that wholeness visible.
ALSO GROWS
anistēmi: rise; stand up
ἀνίστημι
This related verb describes rising or standing up, so restoration and standing again share a picture of capacity re-established.
anastasis: rising; standing up; resurrection
ἀνάστασις
The same standing and rising idea becomes an event or state: what is impaired can be pictured as standing again.
ἔκτεινον
ekteinon
GROWS FROM
τείνω
teinō
stretch; extend
“stretch forth” in this verse is ekteinon. The command has the stretch-root at its center: the body makes a visible outward movement before the narrator names the result. The Greek keeps the action bodily and directional, an actual reach into view.
ALSO GROWS
ektenēs: stretched out; earnest; intense
ἐκτενής
This related word carries physical extension into the sense of sustained effort, showing how the same root can describe both reach and intensity.
epiteinō: stretch further; intensify
ἐπιτείνω
This compound applies the same root to extension and intensification; here the action is a concrete outward reach.
THE PATTERN
Restoration returns an impaired part to sound participation in a wholeness already visible.
And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.THE THREAD
Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.Matthew’s parallel uses ἀποκαθίστημι (apokathistēmi, “restore; re-establish”), the same Greek verb behind Luke’s “was restored.” In both accounts, the other hand gives restoration its visible measure: the impaired hand becomes sound like its counterpart.
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