What Does Ephesians 6:14 Mean?
Stand therefore, with your loins girded about with truth, and put on the breastplate of alignment.
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
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;THE KEY
Truth gathers your center, while alignment covers your chest.
THE MEANING
You stand as truth binds your center and alignment guards your chest. The verse pictures stability as something held together by what is brought into the open and by a life brought into right relation.
THE ROOT
ἀλήθεια
alētheia
GROWS FROM
λανθαν-
lanthan-
to be hidden or escape notice; ἀλήθεια is commonly traced to a negated form of this hiddenness
The word carries the sense of what is no longer concealed. Here truth surrounds the loins: the body’s center is girded by what has come into the open.
ALSO GROWS
lanthanō: be hidden, escape notice
λανθάνω
It names the hiddenness that the word for truth brings into view.
lēthē: forgetfulness, oblivion
λήθη
It shows how what is hidden can also slip from awareness.
alēthēs: true, genuine
ἀληθής
This related word describes what is not concealed or false.
δικαιοσύνη
dikaiosynē
GROWS FROM
δίκ-
dik-
what is right or just; right relation
The word family extends from what is right into the quality and expression of that rightness. Heard as alignment, the breastplate pictures the chest held in right relation.
ALSO GROWS
dikē: justice, what is right
δίκη
It names the root idea of right order within the word family.
dikaios: just, right
δίκαιος
It describes a person or thing in right relation.
dikaiōma: a right act, ordinance
δικαίωμα
It shows rightness taking concrete form.
THE PATTERN
Scripture pictures readiness as a body gathered and protected by truth and right alignment.
And alignment will be the belt of his loins, and steadiness the belt of his kidneys.He put on alignment as a breastplate, and a helmet of deliverance upon his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in burning as in a cloak.Therefore bind up the hips of your thinking, stay sober, and hope to the end for the favor being carried to you at the unveiling of Jesus the Anointed One.THE THREAD
He put on alignment as a breastplate, and a helmet of deliverance upon his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in burning as in a cloak.Here the breastplate of righteousness appears in the same form, placing your image of armor within a larger scriptural picture of alignment covering the chest. The verse also places a helmet beside it, extending the protective image over the head.
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