What Does 1 Peter 1:19 Mean?
but with the costly blood of the Anointed One, as of a lamb without blemish and without stain.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:THE KEY
The blood is called precious because it belongs to the wholly unblemished lamb: value and wholeness meet in the same image.
THE MEANING
Your deliverance is pictured through blood called precious and a lamb described as without blemish or spot. The verse holds cost and wholeness together in one image: the blood of the anointed one is valued as the unblemished offering.
THE ROOT
τιμίῳ
timiō
GROWS FROM
τιμ-
tim-
Value, price, honor.
The word translated “precious” comes from a family that carries both value and honor. It names blood as something esteemed and costly, not merely dear.
ALSO GROWS
timē: Honor, value, or price.
τιμή
Its shared root lets value and honor sound together in the word “precious.”
timaō: To honor or assign value.
τιμάω
This verb shows the same root moving from worth itself to the act of treating something as worthy.
ἀμώμου
amōmou
GROWS FROM
μωμ- (mōm-), negated by ἀ- (a-)
Blemish or fault; with the prefix ἀ- (“without”), unblemished.
“without blemish” in this verse is amōmou. The Greek word names a blemish removed: the lamb is without fault. The added “without spot” deepens the image, leaving no mark of defect in the offering.
ALSO GROWS
mōmos: Blemish or fault.
μῶμος
This is the fault named by the root that ἄμωμος negates.
amōmētos: Blameless or without reproach.
ἀμώμητος
The same root carries the idea of being free from blame as well as free from blemish.
Χριστός
Christos
GROWS FROM
χρίω (chriō), stem χρι- (chri-)
To anoint.
Χριστός names the anointed one; it comes from the verb “to anoint.” The verse identifies whose blood is precious by this title of nature, not as a surname.
ALSO GROWS
chriō: To anoint.
χρίω
This verb is the source of Χριστός, the anointed one.
chrisma: Anointing.
χρῖσμα
The related noun keeps the title connected to the act and nature of anointing.
THE PATTERN
Across Scripture, an offering’s wholeness is shown through the absence of blemish or spot.
Your lamb will be whole, a male of its first year. You will take it from the sheep or from the goats.And whoever brings near a wholeness offering to the LORD to set apart his vow, or a willing offering from the herd or the sheep, it shall be whole to be pleasing; no blemish shall be in it.How much more will the blood of the Anointed One, who through the breath of the ages brought himself near without blemish to God, cleanse our shared sight from dead works to serve the living God.THE THREAD
How much more will the blood of the Anointed One, who through the breath of the ages brought himself near without blemish to God, cleanse our shared sight from dead works to serve the living God.Peter’s “without blemish” is ἄμωμος (amōmos), and Hebrews uses the same word family when it says Christ offered himself “without spot.” The shared root carries the lamb’s unblemished quality into the act of offering itself.
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