What Does Luke 4:19 Mean?
To herald the welcome year of the LORD.
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
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.THE KEY
The “acceptable year” is a season of the Lord’s welcome, announced as good news in the reader’s present.
THE MEANING
The Lord’s favorable time is proclaimed as an opening into welcome and release. The announcement speaks now to the reader: favor is not confined to a remote future.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that God’s favor belongs only to some distant season.
THE ROOT
δεκτόν
dektón
GROWS FROM
δεκ- (from δέχομαι, dékhomai)
To receive or welcome; hence, welcome or favorable.
Beneath “acceptable” is the sense of being welcome or favorably received. This receiving-family makes the announced year more than a date: it is a time marked by the Lord’s favor.
ALSO GROWS
dékhomai: To receive or welcome.
δέχομαι
This verb shares the root and brings out the welcome within the announcement of a favorable year.
apodékhomai: To welcome or receive gladly.
ἀποδέχομαι
This related form makes the receptive sense explicit and deepens the image of favor being welcomed.
THE PATTERN
The Lord’s favor is proclaimed as a present opening into release and restoration.
To proclaim the year of the LORD's favor, and the day of our God's vengeance; to comfort all who mourn.And you shall set apart the fiftieth year, and proclaim a free flowing through all the land to all who settle in it. It shall be a ram's horn year for you, and you shall turn back each to his holding, and each to his family you shall turn back.For he says, "In a welcome time I have heard and answered you, and on the day of deliverance I have run to your cry. Behold, now is the welcome time. Behold, now is the day of deliverance."THE THREAD
For he says, "In a welcome time I have heard and answered you, and on the day of deliverance I have run to your cry. Behold, now is the welcome time. Behold, now is the day of deliverance."“Accepted” here uses the same Greek word family as δεκτόν (dektón, welcome or favorable) in Luke. The word “now” brings the force of that welcome into the reader’s present.
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