What Does 2 Corinthians 13:14 Mean?
The favor of the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, and the love of God, and the sharing in common of the Set-Apart Breath, be with you all. Amen.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.THE KEY
The blessing names divine presence as shared life: favor, love, and shared breath are spoken over you all.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks favor from the Lord Jesus, God’s love, and communion in the Set-Apart Breath over you now. Its closing “you all” makes that blessing communal, holding the whole community within its address.
THE ROOT
κοινωνία
koinōnia
GROWS FROM
κοιν-
koin-
Common; held in common.
“sharing in common” in this verse is koinōnia. The Greek word names participation in what is common, giving “communion” a shared structure of participation. The closing “you all” lets that structure be heard in the verse itself.
ALSO GROWS
koinos: Common; shared.
κοινός
This adjective names the shared quality carried by koinonia.
koinōneō: To share; participate.
κοινωνέω
The verb shows communion as an act of taking part together.
koinōnos: Partner; participant.
κοινωνός
This word names one who shares in what is held in common.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
Deliver; bring out of narrowness into spaciousness.
Jesus bears the name Yeshua, from yasha: deliverance from narrowness into spaciousness. The opening favor is spoken through a name that carries release into room and life.
ALSO GROWS
yashaʿ: Deliver; bring into safety.
יָשַׁע
The name’s root describes movement out of danger or constraint.
yeshuah: Deliverance; rescue.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun names that movement as deliverance itself, a nature carried in the name Yeshua.
πνεῦμα
pneuma
GROWS FROM
πνευ-
pneu-
Breathe or blow; breath and moving air.
The word rendered “Ghost” is pneuma, whose word-family also means breath and blowing wind. “The Holy Ghost” carries breath as a living sense within this blessing: the Set-Apart Breath is shared through the communion named beside it.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: Breathe; blow.
πνέω
The verb supplies the action behind pneuma: moving air is breath.
pnoē: Breath; breeze.
πνοή
This related noun keeps the same breath-and-wind field audible.
THE PATTERN
Life from God takes form as participation shared with others.
A Song of degrees of David. Look, how good and how sweet it is for brothers to settle also together!And they held fast in the teaching of the sent ones, and in sharing in common, and in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.That which we have perceived and heard, we declare to you, so that you also may share in common with us. And truly our sharing in common is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus, the Anointed One.THE THREAD
If there is therefore any comfort in the Anointed One, if any spoken comfort of love, if any sharing in common in the breath, if any inward parts and compassions,Philippians names this same κοινωνία (koinōnia, sharing in common) beside πνεῦμα (pneuma, breath). That pairing opens the communion of the Set-Apart Breath here as shared participation addressed to “you all.”
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