The Meaning of Luke 8:33 Explained

Luke 8:33

KJV: Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.

YLT: and the demons having gone forth from the man, did enter into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep to the lake, and were choked.

Darby: And the demons, going out from the man, entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake, and were choked.

ASV: And the demons came out from the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake, and were drowned.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Then  went  the devils  out of  the man,  and entered  into  the swine:  and  the herd  ran  violently down  a steep  place into  the lake,  and  were choked. 

What does Luke 8:33 Mean?

Context Summary

Luke 8:26-39 - "great Things" For One In Great Need
The victim. In referring to but one demoniac the evangelist would probably concentrate attention on the more prominent of the two mentioned by Matthew. There must have been some collusion between the elements of the storm and the demons in this man. Everything seemed to oppose the Lord's assertion of His right to be obeyed. If demons could possess a man with such power, what might not Christ do if we yielded ourselves absolutely to Him! There must have been some secret yielding on this man's part, or his heart had never become a garrison of demons. He mistook Christ's identity, confusing it with that of the demons. Naked; vile; mighty to destroy! What a terrible combination!
His masters. The evil one dreads to be unclothed and would prefer to be in a pig than in the abyss-that word means "without bottom." Once begin to fall, where will it end? The Jews had no right to keep swine, whatever price the Romans were prepared to pay, Leviticus 11:7. Christ left Gadara, but left a preacher there. We are not taken out of the world, but sent to witness to it and against it. [source]

Chapter Summary: Luke 8

1  Women minister unto Jesus of their own means
4  Jesus, after he had preached from place to place,
9  explains the parable of the sower,
16  and the candle;
19  declares who are his mother, and brothers;
22  rebukes the winds;
26  casts the legion of demons out of the man into the herd of pigs;
37  is rejected by the Gadarenes;
43  heals the woman of her bleeding;
49  and raises Jairus's daughter from death

Greek Commentary for Luke 8:33

Rushed down the steep [ωρμησεν κατα του κρημνου]
Ablative with κατα — kata as in Mark 5:13; Matthew 8:32 and the same vivid verb in each account, to hurl impetuously, to rush. [source]
Were choked [απεπνιγη]
Second aorist (constative) passive indicative third singular (collective singular) where Mark 5:13 has the picturesque imperfect επνιγοντο — epnigonto f0). [source]
Ran violently [ὥρμησεν]
Rev., more neatly, rushed. Only Mark gives the number of the swine, two thousand. [source]
A steep place []
See on Matthew 8:32. [source]

Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Luke 8:33

Matthew 13:7 The thorns grew up [ανεβησαν αι ακανται]
Not “sprang up” as in Matthew 13:5, for a different verb occurs meaning “came up” out of the ground, the seeds of the thorns being already in the soil, “upon the thorns” (επι τας ακαντας — epi tas akanthas) rather than “among the thorns.” But the thorns got a quick start as weeds somehow do and “choked them” (απεπνιχαν αυτα — apepnixan auta effective aorist of αποπνιγω — apopnigō), “choked them off” literally. Luke (Luke 8:33) uses it of the hogs in the water. Who has not seen vegetables and flowers and corn made yellow by thorns and weeds till they sicken and die? [source]
Mark 5:13 They were choked [epnigonto)]
Imperfect tense picturing graphically the disappearance of pig after pig in the sea. Luke 8:33 has apegnigē choked off, constative second aorist passive indicative, treated as a whole, Matthew 8:32 merely has “perished” (επνιγοντο — apethanon died). [source]
Luke 8:42 Thronged [συνέπνιγον]
With the idea of pressing together ( σύν ) upon him: stifling. The simple verb is that rendered choke, as in Luke 8:7, Luke 8:33. [source]
Acts 7:57 Rushed upon him with one accord [ωρμησαν ομοτυμαδον επ αυτον]
Ingressive aorist active indicative of ορμαω — hormaō to rush impetuously as the hogs did down the cliff when the demons entered them (Luke 8:33). No vote was taken by the Sanhedrin. No scruple was raised about not having the right to put him to death (John 8:31). It may have taken place after Pilate‘s recall and before his successor came or Pilate, if there, just connived at such an incident that did not concern Rome. At any rate it was mob violence like modern lynching that took the law into the hands of the Sanhedrin without further formalities. Out of the city (εκ της πολεως — ek tēs poleōs). To keep from defiling the place with blood. But they sought to kill Paul as soon as they got him out of the temple area (Acts 21:30.). Stoned Imperfect active indicative of λιτοβολεω — lithoboleō began to stone, from λιτοβολος — lithobolos The witnesses (οι μαρτυρες — hoi martureōs). The false testifiers against Stephen suborned by the Pharisees (Acts 6:11, Acts 6:13). These witnesses had the privilege of casting the first stones (Deuteronomy 13:10; Deuteronomy 17:7) against the first witness for Christ with death (martyr in our modern sense of the word). At the feet of a young man named Saul Beside Gamaliel, as the Pharisaic leader in the Sanhedrin, was probably on hand to hear the accusations against Stephen by the Pharisees. But, if so, he does not raise his voice against this mob violence. Saul does not seem to be aware that he is going contrary to the views of his master, though pupils often go further than their teachers. [source]

What do the individual words in Luke 8:33 mean?

Having gone out then the demons from the man they entered into the pigs and rushed the herd down steep bank the lake was drowned
Ἐξελθόντα δὲ τὰ δαιμόνια ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου εἰσῆλθον εἰς τοὺς χοίρους καὶ ὥρμησεν ἀγέλη κατὰ κρημνοῦ τὴν λίμνην ἀπεπνίγη

Ἐξελθόντα  Having  gone  out 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Participle Active, Nominative Neuter Plural
Root: ἐξέρχομαι 
Sense: to go or come forth of.
δαιμόνια  demons 
Parse: Noun, Nominative Neuter Plural
Root: δαιμόνιον  
Sense: the divine power, deity, divinity.
ἀνθρώπου  man 
Parse: Noun, Genitive Masculine Singular
Root: ἄνθρωπος  
Sense: a human being, whether male or female.
εἰσῆλθον  they  entered 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural
Root: εἰσέρχομαι  
Sense: to go out or come in: to enter.
εἰς  into 
Parse: Preposition
Root: εἰς  
Sense: into, unto, to, towards, for, among.
χοίρους  pigs 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Plural
Root: χοῖρος  
Sense: a swine.
ὥρμησεν  rushed 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Singular
Root: ὁρμάω  
Sense: to set in rapid motion, stir up, incite, urge on.
ἀγέλη  herd 
Parse: Noun, Nominative Feminine Singular
Root: ἀγέλη  
Sense: herd or oxen or cattle, a herd or company.
κατὰ  down 
Parse: Preposition
Root: κατά 
Sense: down from, through out.
κρημνοῦ  steep  bank 
Parse: Noun, Genitive Masculine Singular
Root: κρημνός  
Sense: a steep place, a precipice.
λίμνην  lake 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Singular
Root: λίμνη  
Sense: a lake.
ἀπεπνίγη  was  drowned 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Passive, 3rd Person Singular
Root: ἀποπνίγω  
Sense: to choke.

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