What Does Luke 1:65 Mean?
And awe came upon all those dwelling around them, and all these words were carried through the mountain country of Judea.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judæa.THE KEY
The event moves outward first as alarm, then as a story people keep speaking.
THE MEANING
A startling event can set fear moving through everyone nearby. Its words then travel beyond the first witnesses, until people across a whole region are talking about what happened.
THE ROOT
διελαλεῖτο
dielaleito
GROWS FROM
λαλ-
lal-
The stem λαλ- (lal-, speaking) appears in λαλέω (laleō, to speak or talk). In διαλαλέω (dialaleō, to talk about or discuss), it describes speech shared among people.
“carried through” in this verse is dielaleito. The verb belongs to διαλαλέω (dialaleō, to talk about or discuss): these sayings are being discussed throughout the hill country. “Noised abroad” can sound like anonymous noise, while the Greek centers people talking; speech itself carries the event onward.
ALSO GROWS
laleō: To speak or talk.
λαλέω
This is the speaking stem beneath the verse’s spreading report: the event travels in what people say.
laliá: Speech or a way of speaking.
λαλιά
This related word keeps attention on spoken exchange, the human voices through which the report reaches others.
THE PATTERN
A witnessed event outgrows its first setting when its report travels from hearer to hearer.
And when we heard these things, our hearts melted, and no breath stood up any longer in any man from your face. For the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.When this voice arose, the crowd came together and was poured into confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own tongue.THE THREAD
But Mary kept all these words, casting them together in her heart.The Greek phrase translated “all these sayings” here and “all these things” there uses the same noun, ῥήματα (rhēmata, sayings or matters). What travels through public speech in this verse is also held and pondered by Mary.
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