What Does Luke 7:15 Mean in the King James?
And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
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 Greek says Jesus “gave” the son to his mother: the resurrection’s final movement is a person returned to relationship.
THE MEANING
Life’s return is not abstract here: the man sits upright, speaks, and is restored to his mother’s care. His voice and his place with her return together, making restoration bodily and relational at once.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The scene undoes the claim that death has left this son forever beyond return: he is alive, speaking, and back with his mother.
THE ROOT
ἔδωκεν
edōken
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
didōmi
to give, grant, or place into someone’s hands
The verb translated “delivered” also carries the plain sense “gave.” Jesus gives the living son into his mother’s care; the giving makes the restoration a return to their relationship, not just a change in the son’s condition.
ALSO GROWS
paradidōmi: hand over, deliver
παραδίδωμι
This compound makes the hand-to-hand sense of giving explicit, echoing the son’s return to his mother.
apodidōmi: give back, return, repay
ἀποδίδωμι
This compound’s sense of giving back illuminates the scene’s movement: the son is returned to the relationship death had interrupted.
THE PATTERN
In these restorations, life becomes visible through a person’s return to bodily presence and human relationship.
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.THE THREAD
And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.Both scenes use a form of δίδωμι (didōmi), “to give”: the son is given to his mother, and the girl is given food. The shared verb opens restoration as a return to relationship and care.
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