What Does 2 Corinthians 13:13 Mean?
All the set-apart ones embrace you.
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
All the saints salute you.THE KEY
The word “saints” names people set apart, while “salute” makes that belonging reach toward you as a greeting.
THE MEANING
You receive the greeting of all the set-apart ones. Their distinct belonging does not close around them; it reaches you as recognition and welcome. The verse places you inside a shared life that crosses the distance between people.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that being set apart means being cut off from others dissolves here: the set-apart ones greet you.
THE ROOT
οἱ ἅγιοι
hoi hagioi
GROWS FROM
ἁγι-
hagi-
Set apart; belonging to what is sacred.
“set-apart ones” in this verse is hoi hagioi. “Saints” carries the sense of people set apart, not merely a religious title. The same word family describes the act and state of setting apart, so the greeting comes from a community defined by belonging, and it reaches you.
ALSO GROWS
hagiazō: Set apart; consecrate.
ἁγιάζω
This verb names the setting-apart behind the word “saints.”
hagiasmos: Setting apart; consecration.
ἁγιασμός
This noun shows “saints” as a shared state of belonging, not a solitary distinction.
ἀσπάζονται
aspazontai
GROWS FROM
ἀσπάζ-
aspaz-
Greet or welcome.
“embrace” in this verse is aspazontai. The verb translated “salute” is a greeting that turns toward another person. Its word family appears in greetings sent across distance and in greetings exchanged face to face, making welcome something shared.
ALSO GROWS
aspazomai: Greet; welcome.
ἀσπάζομαι
This is the verb in its dictionary form, the same family as the greeting sent to you.
aspasmos: Greeting; salutation.
ἀσπασμός
This related noun names the greeting as an act passed between people.
THE PATTERN
A greeting carries welcome across distance and turns it into mutual recognition.
And so shall you say to him who lives in prosperity, Wholeness be to you, and wholeness to your house, and wholeness to all that you have.All the brothers embrace you. Embrace one another with a set-apart kiss.Embrace every set-apart one in Jesus the Anointed One. The brothers who are with me embrace you.THE THREAD
All the brothers embrace you. Embrace one another with a set-apart kiss.The words translated “greet” here are forms of ἀσπάζομαι (aspazomai), to greet or welcome, the same verb behind “salute” in this verse. The greeting that reaches you turns outward again as a shared exchange.
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