What Does 1 Peter 5:11 Mean?
To him be the strength for the ages of the ages. Amen.
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
To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.THE KEY
The verse gives both weight and rule to him, then stretches them across the ages of the ages.
THE MEANING
What carries true weight and what holds power belong to him. The verse places this present moment within a horizon of age upon age. “Amen” leaves the claim standing as firm.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that whoever appears strongest now has the final claim to power; this verse places dominion with him across the ages.
THE ROOT
κράτος
kratos
GROWS FROM
κρατ-
krat-
Strength, might, effective power.
“strength” in this verse is kratos. The word carries the force of power that can hold and prevail, not only a title of authority. Beside the word for glory, it names both the weight that belongs to him and the power of his rule.
ALSO GROWS
krateō: to hold, seize, or prevail
κρατέω
This related verb shows dominion as effective power that holds its ground.
krataioō: to strengthen, make strong
κραταιόω
The same consonantal family links dominion with the capacity to establish strength.
δόξα
doxa
GROWS FROM
δοξ-
dox-
Honor, esteem, recognized splendor.
The word rendered “glory” belongs to a family of honoring and being held in esteem. Read beside κράτος (kratos, power), it names both what gives him weight and the power by which his rule holds.
ALSO GROWS
doxazō: to glorify, honor
δοξάζω
The verb makes explicit the act of giving honor carried by this word family.
endoxos: honorable, glorious
ἔνδοξος
This related adjective describes one who is held in honor, opening the sense of glory as recognized worth.
THE PATTERN
Scripture locates lasting weight and governing power in God, extending his dominion across every generation and age.
Your governance is a governance of all ages, and your rule is in every generation and generation.For from him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him let there be weight for the ages. Amen.To the only wise God, our Deliverer, through Jesus the Anointed One, our Lord, be weight, greatness, might, and authority, before all the age, and now, and unto all the ages. Amen.THE THREAD
If anyone speaks, let them speak as the words of God. If anyone serves, let them serve by the strength God supplies, so that in all things God may be given weight through Jesus, the Anointed One, to whom belong the weight and the might for the ages of the ages. Amen.Here “praise” renders the same Greek word, δόξα (doxa, glory), and “dominion” renders the same κράτος (kratos, power) found in this verse. The earlier verse joins them to speaking and service; this one gathers the same pair into a final declaration.
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