What Does Luke 10:5 Mean?
And into whatever house you enter, first say, Let wholeness be to this house.
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 into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.THE KEY
The first thing carried across a doorway is wholeness, spoken over everyone who shares the house.
THE MEANING
When you enter a home, your first words are peace, wholeness offered to the people and shared life within it. The house is named as a place where that wholeness can rest.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Peace is only a private feeling; here it is spoken over an entire household.
THE ROOT
εἰρήνη
eirēnē
GROWS FROM
εἰρήν-
eirēn-
Peace, wholeness, and harmony.
“Let wholeness be” in this verse is eirēnē. The word carries more than a wish for quiet: it names wholeness offered to the whole house. The verse makes that wholeness the first thing spoken across its threshold.
ALSO GROWS
eirēneuō: To live in peace or be at peace.
εἰρηνεύω
The shared word family presents peace as a condition people can inhabit, not only a greeting they hear.
eirēnopoios: A peacemaker.
εἰρηνοποιός
The same word family can describe someone who makes peace, linking the spoken greeting with peace taking shape in a life.
οἶκος
oikos
GROWS FROM
οἰκ-
oik-
House, home, or household.
“House” in this verse is oikos. The word can point beyond a building to the household, the people and shared life within it. So the greeting reaches the life gathered under one roof, not just the structure.
ALSO GROWS
oikia: A house or household.
οἰκία
This related word keeps the sense of a home as a place and the people who belong to it.
oikoumenē: The inhabited world.
οἰκουμένη
The word family extends from the household to the world people inhabit, widening the sense of a home as lived space.
THE PATTERN
Peace is spoken as wholeness offered to people and places.
The LORD lift up his face upon you, and give you wholeness.Then on that same evening, the first day of the week, when the doors were locked where the disciples had gathered together for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, Wholeness be with you.And he came and brought good news of wholeness to you who were far off, and wholeness to those near.THE THREAD
Then on that same evening, the first day of the week, when the doors were locked where the disciples had gathered together for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, Wholeness be with you.The same Greek word, εἰρήνη (eirēnē, peace and wholeness), is spoken into a closed room where fear is present. Luke’s house greeting and John’s room greeting both make peace the first word spoken into a shared space.
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