What Does 1 Peter 1:19 Mean in the King James?
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
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 blood is called precious because it belongs to the wholly unblemished lamb: value and wholeness meet in the same image.
THE MEANING
Your deliverance is pictured through blood called precious and a lamb described as without blemish or spot. The verse holds cost and wholeness together in one image: the blood of the anointed one is valued as the unblemished offering.
THE ROOT
τιμίῳ
timiō
GROWS FROM
τιμ-
tim-
Value, price, honor.
The word translated “precious” comes from a family that carries both value and honor. It names blood as something esteemed and costly, not merely dear.
ALSO GROWS
timē: Honor, value, or price.
τιμή
Its shared root lets value and honor sound together in the word “precious.”
timaō: To honor or assign value.
τιμάω
This verb shows the same root moving from worth itself to the act of treating something as worthy.
ἀμώμου
amōmou
GROWS FROM
μωμ- (mōm-), negated by ἀ- (a-)
Blemish or fault; with the prefix ἀ- (“without”), unblemished.
“without blemish” in this verse is amōmou. The Greek word names a blemish removed: the lamb is without fault. The added “without spot” deepens the image, leaving no mark of defect in the offering.
ALSO GROWS
mōmos: Blemish or fault.
μῶμος
This is the fault named by the root that ἄμωμος negates.
amōmētos: Blameless or without reproach.
ἀμώμητος
The same root carries the idea of being free from blame as well as free from blemish.
Χριστός
Christos
GROWS FROM
χρίω (chriō), stem χρι- (chri-)
To anoint.
“Christ” in this verse is Christos. Χριστός names the anointed one; it comes from the verb “to anoint.” The verse identifies whose blood is precious by this title of nature, not as a surname.
ALSO GROWS
chriō: To anoint.
χρίω
This verb is the source of Χριστός, the anointed one.
chrisma: Anointing.
χρῖσμα
The related noun keeps the title connected to the act and nature of anointing.
THE PATTERN
Across Scripture, an offering’s wholeness is shown through the absence of blemish or spot.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?THE THREAD
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?Peter’s “without blemish” is ἄμωμος (amōmos), and Hebrews uses the same word family when it says Christ offered himself “without spot.” The shared root carries the lamb’s unblemished quality into the act of offering itself.
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