What Does Luke 7:7 Mean in the King James?
Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.
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 speaker’s sense of unworthiness does not bar access: one word from the healer can reach a body at a distance.
THE MEANING
A word carries healing without requiring physical nearness. Your sense of unworthiness does not make you unreachable; healing can reach the place where you are.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that you must be worthy enough to come close, or physically near the source of help, for healing to reach you.
THE ROOT
λόγῳ
logō
GROWS FROM
λέγω
legō
to say, speak, or tell
The Greek is λόγῳ (logō), “with a word”; its word-family carries speech, message, and account. The speaker trusts that the meaning and authority in what is said can reach the servant without a physical visit.
ALSO GROWS
logos: word, speech, message, or account
λόγος
This is the noun used in the verse: the spoken message reaches beyond the speaker’s presence.
logizomai: reckon, consider, or account
λογίζομαι
The related word-family points to meaningful content that can be considered, not merely a sound or formula.
ἰαθήσεται
iathēsetai
GROWS FROM
ἰάομαι (iaomai), ἰα- (ia-)
to heal or cure
“healed” in this verse is iathēsetai. The verb says the servant will receive healing. Read beside λόγῳ, it links a spoken message with a change in the servant’s body, while the speaker’s worthiness is not the instrument of that change.
ALSO GROWS
iasis: healing or cure
ἴασις
This noun names the healing the verb promises for the servant.
iatros: physician or healer
ἰατρός
The shared word-family keeps the focus on healing and the one who heals.
παῖς
pais
GROWS FROM
παιδ-
paid-
child or young person; also attendant or servant
The Greek word translated servant can also refer to a child or young person. That range does not establish the servant’s age, but it keeps the person behind the role in view as the verse speaks of his healing.
ALSO GROWS
paidion: child or young child
παιδίον
It shares the child or young-person word-family of παῖς.
paidiskē: young female servant or attendant
παιδίσκη
It shows the same family can name a person by a service role.
THE PATTERN
A spoken word can carry healing into the place where a body needs it.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.THE THREAD
Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.The Greek word λόγος (logos) appears here too: the man trusts the word spoken about his son. In both verses, healing reaches someone who is away from the speaker, and the word is trusted before its effect is seen.
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