What Does Luke 19:9 Mean?
And Jesus said to him, "Today deliverance has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham."
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 Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.THE KEY
Deliverance is named as arriving at a household, and the person in it is named as belonging.
THE MEANING
Today, deliverance comes to the house in view, and the person addressed belongs within Abraham’s family. The verse holds arrival and belonging together in one present declaration: this house is a place where deliverance comes.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A house is disqualified from deliverance by the person in it; Jesus names this house as the place where deliverance has arrived.
THE ROOT
σωτηρία
sōtēria
GROWS FROM
σωτηρ
Deliverance and preservation; the saving family of words.
Greek σωτηρία names deliverance, while its word family also names the deliverer and what brings deliverance. Here it arrives at a named household as a present event.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēr: Deliverer, savior
σωτήρ
The same family names the one who delivers, joining deliverance with a deliverer.
sōtērios: Saving, bringing deliverance
σωτήριος
This branch describes what carries the quality of deliverance that has come to the house.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yēšūaʿ
GROWS FROM
ישע
Deliver, bring out of distress into spaciousness.
“Jesus” in this verse is Yēšūaʿ. The name Yeshua carries the nature of deliverance, from יָשַׁע (yasha), to deliver. Abraham’s name, אַבְרָהָם (Avraham), is linked in Genesis 17:5 with being father of a multitude, placing this declaration of deliverance beside a name of widening kinship.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: Deliver, bring to safety
יָשַׁע
The name’s root expresses the movement from distress toward spaciousness that resonates with deliverance arriving.
yeshuah: Deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun names the deliverance that the Greek σωτηρία also expresses in the verse.
moshia: Deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This branch names the one who brings deliverance, echoing the nature carried by the name Jesus.
οἴκῳ
oikō
GROWS FROM
οἰκ
House, dwelling, household.
“house” in this verse is oikō. The οἰκ family can name both a dwelling and the household living in it. Deliverance is spoken as arriving among the people and place gathered under one roof.
ALSO GROWS
oikía: House, home, household
οἰκία
This branch makes explicit the shared household sense carried by the house in the verse.
oikéō: Dwell, inhabit
οἰκέω
A house is the place where people dwell; the word family keeps the focus on an inhabited home.
oikodoméō: Build a house, build up
οἰκοδομέω
The same house-root appears in a word for building, linking the dwelling to what is built within it.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance is announced at a household threshold and gathers a household into its reach.
For the LORD will cross through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will leap over the opening, and will not give the ruiner leave to come into your houses to strike you.Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you lowered us. And you shall gather to yourself, into your house, your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household.And they said, Lean your weight on the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, and you will be delivered, you and your house.THE THREAD
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to deliver that which had lost its way.σωτηρία (sōtēria, deliverance) in this verse and σῶσαι (sōsai, to deliver) in the next belong to the Greek saving word family of σώζω (sōzō, deliver). The next verse names the movement behind this arrival: the one called lost is sought and delivered.
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