What Does 1 Peter 5:13 Mean in the King James?
The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.
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 assembly and the reader are named as chosen together, making belonging a shared bond that crosses distance.
THE MEANING
You are greeted by an assembly that shares its choosing with you, and Marcus is named as a son. Belonging reaches across distance: you are included in a shared choosing and a family bond. The greeting makes that connection present and personal.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being chosen is a private status that leaves you alone; this verse describes a shared choosing and a greeting between people.
THE ROOT
συνεκλεκτή
syneklektē
GROWS FROM
ἐκλέγω
To choose or select.
“elected together” in this verse is syneklektē. The Greek form συνεκλεκτή (syneklektē) means co-chosen, chosen together; it describes the assembly as sharing this choosing with you. The word makes belonging collective: the assembly’s distance does not erase its connection to you.
ALSO GROWS
eklektos: Chosen or selected.
ἐκλεκτός
The same word family calls a people chosen in 1 Peter 2:9, showing the shared choosing as a collective identity.
eklogē: Choice or election.
ἐκλογή
This branch names the act or result of choosing, keeping the focus on a shared choice rather than a private label.
THE PATTERN
Shared choosing gathers people into a belonging that is expressed through mutual connection.
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:THE THREAD
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:The word translated “chosen” is ἐκλεκτός (eklektos), meaning selected, from the same Greek word family as συνεκλεκτή (syneklektē), meaning co-chosen. Together, the verses present choosing as a shared identity that forms a people.
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