What Does Luke 7:45 Mean in the King James?
Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
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 greeting Simon withholds reappears as affection the woman keeps giving at Jesus’ feet.
THE MEANING
The verse places a missing sign of welcome beside affection that does not stop. It makes welcome visible through repeated, tangible care.
THE ROOT
φίλημα
philēma
GROWS FROM
φιλε- (phile-), from φιλέω (phileō)
Affection, fondness, love.
The kiss Simon does not give is φίλημα, from the same affection-family as φιλέω; the woman’s verb, καταφιλέω, describes kissing with emphasis. The contrast makes affection visible as repeated touch, not merely a greeting Simon omits.
ALSO GROWS
philos: Friend, beloved.
φίλος
The shared root links friendship with the affection carried in the kiss.
philia: Affection, friendship.
φιλία
This branch makes clear that the kiss belongs to a wider language of personal affection.
THE PATTERN
Welcome becomes visible through embodied affection, while its absence exposes a contrast.
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.THE THREAD
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.Luke 15:20 uses the same compound verb, καταφιλέω (kataphileō), for the father’s kiss. The shared root joins the woman’s continuing kisses at Jesus’ feet with a father’s embodied welcome of his returning son.
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