What Does 1 Corinthians 15:27 Mean in the King James?
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
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
“All things” has a boundary: the one who places them beneath the Son is expressly excepted.
THE MEANING
The verse places everything beneath the Son while naming the one who does the placing as outside that totality. Authority here has a source; the one who orders the relation is not included among the things ordered.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that “all things” must include the one who puts them under the Son: this verse explicitly excepts that source.
THE ROOT
ὑπέταξεν
hypetaxen
GROWS FROM
τάσσω
tassō
to arrange, assign, or set in order
“put ... under” in this verse is hypetaxen. The active “he placed under” and the resulting “have been placed under” share the hypotassō word family: the verse names both the agent and the settled relation. The “all” is an ordered relation with a source, and the next word marks that source as the exception.
ALSO GROWS
tassō: appoint, arrange, set in order
τάσσω
The base verb presents placement as part of an arrangement.
hypotassō: put under, subject
ὑποτάσσω
The compound adds “under,” describing the relation established in this verse.
diatassō: arrange, direct, command
διατάσσω
The same verb family links placing with directing an order.
ἐκτός
ektos
GROWS FROM
ἐκ / ἐξ (ek / ex), the Greek “out of” element
out of, from; outside
The verse expresses “excepted” with ἐκτός (ektos), meaning “outside” or “except.” The one doing the placing is therefore marked as outside the things placed under the Son.
ALSO GROWS
ektos: outside, except
ἐκτός
This is the word used for the exception in the verse; it makes the boundary of “all things” explicit.
ekballō: throw out, drive out
ἐκβάλλω
The same ἐκ- element carries the sense of movement out of a place.
exerchomai: go out, come out
ἐξέρχομαι
The ἐξ- form preserves that outward sense before a vowel.
THE PATTERN
Scripture pictures the whole created order as placed beneath the appointed ruler through the image of everything under his feet.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.THE THREAD
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.The same hypotassō word family appears again: all things are brought under the Son, and the Son is then described as subject to the one who placed them there. The next verse makes the source of the ordering explicit and carries the passage toward “God may be all in all.”
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