Colossians 2:19
New Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God."
Word-by-Word Analysis
κρατέω
kratéō
to use strength, i.e. seize or retain (literally or figuratively)
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
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...
מוֹסֵר
môwçêr
properly, chastisement, i.e. (by implication) a halter; figuratively, restraint
בַּעַל
baʻal
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
שָׁרַת
shârath
to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to
יַחַד
yachad
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
יָסַף
yâçaph
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
תְּבוּאָה
tᵉbûwʼâh
income, i.e. produce (literally or figuratively)
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
Key Terms in This Verse
κρατέω kratéō
to use strength, i.e. seize or retain (literally or figuratively)
Study G2902 →יָסַף yâçaph
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
Study H3254 →שָׁרַת shârath
to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to
Study H8334 →מוֹסֵר môwçêr
properly, chastisement, i.e. (by implication) a halter; figuratively, restraint
Study H4147 →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 →בַּעַל baʻal
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
Study H1167 →Cross References
That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of C...
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striv...
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind...
And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
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