What Does 1 Corinthians 11:9 Mean in the King James?
Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse assigns woman a purpose in relation to man; its Greek “for” marks direction toward him, not a word for her value.
THE MEANING
The claim reaches you as an ordering of relation: the woman is created for the man. Its words assign her a direction toward him and do not state a reciprocal direction for him.
THE ROOT
ἐκτίσθη
ektisthē
GROWS FROM
κτίζω
ktizō
to create, establish, or bring into being
The verb belongs to a word family that names both creation and what has been created. That connection places the woman’s stated purpose within the wider language of created order.
ALSO GROWS
ktisis: creation; the created order
κτίσις
This noun shows that the verb belongs to language for the whole created order, not only an isolated act of making.
ktisma: a created thing; a creature
κτίσμα
This branch names the result of creating, linking the act in the verse with the created being whose purpose it describes.
THE PATTERN
Scripture describes human life through relations of origin, purpose, and dependence.
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.THE THREAD
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:“Created” here shares the κτίζω word family with “created” in 1 Corinthians 11:9. Colossians widens that creation language to all things, placing the relation named in this verse within a larger created order.
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