Ephesians 4:15
New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
דָבַר
dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
אֶמֶת
ʼemeth
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
צָמַח
tsâmach
to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Χριστός
Christós
anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus
Key Terms in This Verse
צָמַח tsâmach
to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
Study H6779 →דָבַר dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Study H1696 →רֹאשׁ rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Study H7218 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →Cross References
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
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.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscienc...
And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
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