Ephesians 2:15
New Testament • 17 words with Strong's data
"Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
בַּעַל
baʻal
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
καταργέω
katargéō
to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or figuratively
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
תּוֹרָה
tôwrâh
a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
מִצְוָה
mitsvâh
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
חֻקָּה
chuqqâh
{an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)}
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
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...
שְׁנַיִם
shᵉnayim
two; also (as ordinal) twofold
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
שָׁלוֹם
shâlôwm
safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
Key Terms in This Verse
καταργέω katargéō
to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or figuratively
Study G2673 →בַּיִת bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Study H1004 →חֻקָּה chuqqâh
{an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)}
Study H2708 →מִצְוָה mitsvâh
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
Study H4687 →בַּעַל baʻal
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
Study H1167 →בָּשָׂר bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Study H1320 →Cross References
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the ...
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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