What Does Luke 1:67 Mean?
And his father Zacharias was filled with the Set-Apart Breath, and prophesied, saying,
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 his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,THE KEY
The verse joins filling and prophecy so closely that prophetic speech appears as the overflow of received breath.
THE MEANING
The verse brings received fullness into speech: the Set-Apart Breath fills, and prophecy comes out. It speaks now of utterance as spoken disclosure carried by the breath that fills a person.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a revealing word must come only from a speaker’s own insight or effort.
THE ROOT
πνεύματος ἁγίου
pneumatos hagiou
GROWS FROM
πνέω
pneō
To breathe or blow; πνεῦμα names breath and wind.
“Holy Ghost” in this verse is pneumatos hagiou. Pneuma holds breath and wind together in one word. Here filling with the Set-Apart Breath and prophesying sit side by side: the utterance is what that breath carries.
ALSO GROWS
pneuma: Breath, wind
πνεῦμα
The same word names the breath that fills and the wind that moves.
pnoē: Breath, blast
πνοή
This related word makes the sense of moving breath audible within the image of prophetic speech.
ἐπροφήτευσεν
eprophēteusen
GROWS FROM
προφητεύω
prophēteuō
To utter prophetic speech, to speak as a prophet.
“prophesied” in this verse is eprophēteusen. The word names spoken disclosure, not only the prediction of future events. Paired with the filling by breath, it presents prophecy as speech carried by what fills the speaker.
ALSO GROWS
prophētēs: Prophet, one who speaks prophetically
προφήτης
It names the speaker whose words carry prophetic disclosure.
prophēteia: Prophecy, prophetic utterance
προφητεία
It names the spoken disclosure itself, keeping the focus on utterance.
THE PATTERN
Prophetic speech appears as the overflow of breath received from God.
And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spoke with him, and took from the breath that was upon him and set it upon the seventy elders. And when the breath settled upon them, they prophesied and did not stop.And it shall be afterward, that I will pour out my breath upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your elders will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.And they were all filled with the Set-Apart Breath, and began to speak in other tongues, as the breath gave them to speak out.THE THREAD
For prophecy is never borne by the wanting of man, but set-apart men of God speak, borne by the Set-Apart Breath.The same pneuma, the Set-Apart Breath, appears beside the same prophetic word family. Luke’s sequence, filled with the Breath, then prophesying, reappears as prophecy carried by that Breath.
Read the SDV Bible.
Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.
The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us