Colossians 1:21
New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled"
Word-by-Word Analysis
ποτέ
poté
indefinite adverb, at some time, ever
יָקַע
yâqaʻ
properly, to sever oneself, i.e. (by implication) to be dislocated; figuratively, to abandon; causatively, to impale (and thus allow to drop to pieces...
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
רָשָׁע
râshâʻ
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
מַעֲשֶׂה
maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
עוֹד
ʻôwd
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
διαλλάσσω
diallássō
to change thoroughly, i.e. (mentally) to conciliate
Key Terms in This Verse
יָקַע yâqaʻ
properly, to sever oneself, i.e. (by implication) to be dislocated; figuratively, to abandon; causatively, to impale (and thus allow to drop to pieces by rotting)
Study H3363 →διαλλάσσω diallássō
to change thoroughly, i.e. (mentally) to conciliate
Study G1259 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
Study H4639 →עוֹד ʻôwd
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
Study H5750 →Cross References
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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