What Does Luke 8:24 Mean in the King James?
And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
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
Luke uses the same Greek verb for Jesus’ rebuke of a fever and of the storm, placing wind and water under the same direct address.
THE MEANING
The scene meets the reader where fear calls danger total: “we perish.” Jesus wakes, addresses the wind and surging water, and they cease; calm follows. Fear is present, but it does not decide how the scene ends.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The false certainty is that danger has already become loss: the disciples say “we perish” before the storm ceases.
THE ROOT
ἐπετίμησεν
epetimēsen
GROWS FROM
ἐπιτιμάω
epitimaō
To rebuke, censure, or issue a sharp charge.
“rebuked” in this verse is epetimēsen. Luke uses this same verb when Jesus addresses a fever and an unclean spirit. Here the wind and water receive that same direct rebuke, so the scene presents the storm as something Jesus addresses, not merely something that happens to quiet down.
ALSO GROWS
epetimēsen: Rebuked; Luke 4:39 uses this same form for Jesus’ rebuke of a fever.
ἐπετίμησεν
The fever leaves after the same verb names Jesus’ address to it.
epetimēsen: Rebuked; Luke 9:42 uses this same form for Jesus’ rebuke of an unclean spirit.
ἐπετίμησεν
The repeated verb links the storm with other disturbances that meet a direct address.
ἐπαύσαντο
epausanto
GROWS FROM
παύω
pauō
To stop, cease, or bring to an end.
The word translated “ceased” comes from the same Greek root used in words for rest. The storm stops, and calm follows; the language joins stopping and resting within one word family.
ALSO GROWS
katepausen: Ceased; Hebrews 4:10 uses this form for ceasing from one’s works.
κατέπαυσεν
The compound καταπαύω (katapauō, “cease, rest”) carries the same root into the language of rest.
anapausō: I will give rest; Matthew 11:28 uses this form.
ἀναπαύσω
The compound ἀναπαύω (anapauō, “give rest, refresh”) shows the same root in a word for receiving rest.
ἀπολλύμεθα
apollymetha
GROWS FROM
ἀπόλλυμι
apollymi
To perish, be destroyed, or become lost.
“perish” in this verse is apollymetha. This verb can describe perishing and being lost, meanings English often separates. The disciples’ cry carries both the threat of destruction and the language of loss, while the verse lets their fear stand beside the storm’s sudden end.
ALSO GROWS
apolesas: Having lost; Luke 15:4 uses this form of a lost sheep.
ἀπολέσας
The same verb can describe someone or something that is lost.
apolētai: Should perish; John 3:16 uses this form.
ἀπόληται
The same root also names the threat of perishing.
THE PATTERN
Waters that exceed human control still meet a boundary they cannot cross.
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.THE THREAD
And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.Luke 4:39 uses the same verb, ἐπιτιμάω (epitimaō, “rebuke”), for Jesus’ address to a fever, which then leaves. Here that same verb meets wind and water, linking the storm’s calming to the same kind of direct address.
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