What Does Luke 7:35 Mean?
But wisdom is held aligned by all her children.
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
But wisdom is justified of all her children.THE KEY
Wisdom is vindicated by what it gives birth to, not by the verdicts spoken over it.
THE MEANING
Wisdom is vindicated in the life it brings forth now. What is born from its way reveals its character, even when people misread or dismiss it. Its outcomes are the evidence.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A rejected voice is not thereby false or foolish; the measure named here is what wisdom brings forth, not whether it wins immediate approval.
THE ROOT
τέκνων
teknōn
GROWS FROM
τίκτω
tíktō
To give birth, beget, or bring forth.
The word for children belongs to the family of “giving birth” and “bringing forth.” Wisdom’s children are what its way produces, and those outcomes make its nature visible.
ALSO GROWS
téknon: Child; offspring.
τέκνον
It names what is born from a source; wisdom’s children are what its way brings into life.
tókos: Birth; offspring; increase.
τόκος
It can name what issues from a source, echoing the visible yield by which wisdom is known.
ἐδικαιώθη
edikaiōthē
GROWS FROM
δικ-
dik-
Right, just; the quality of being in the right.
“held aligned” in this verse is edikaiōthē. The verb says wisdom is shown to be right through its children. Its vindication comes through the lives and outcomes it produces.
ALSO GROWS
díkaios: Right; just.
δίκαιος
This word names what is shown to be true of wisdom through what it brings forth.
dikaiosýnē: Alignment; righteousness.
δικαιοσύνη
The same word family points to alignment, which wisdom’s children make visible.
THE PATTERN
Wisdom is recognized by what it brings forth; its effects disclose the nature of its source.
For whoever finds me finds life, and draws favor out of the LORD.But the wisdom that is from above is first set apart, then whole, gentle, and easy to yield to, full of faithful love and good fruits, undivided, and without a mask.You will know them by their fruits. Do people gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?THE THREAD
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Look, a man, a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax collectors and of those who miss the mark. But wisdom is made aligned by her children.Matthew gives the parallel saying and makes the dismissive verdict explicit. In both verses, wisdom is vindicated by what it brings forth, while the children reveal the nature of their source.
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