What Does Colossians 1:19 Mean in the King James?
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
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 fullness is shown as at home in him: completeness is a dwelling presence, not a scattered supply.
THE MEANING
The verse locates fullness in him as a present reality. It pictures completeness as already at home there, rather than as something assembled piece by piece.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the fear that wholeness must be pieced together from fragments elsewhere.
THE ROOT
πλήρωμα
plērōma
GROWS FROM
πληρ-
plēr-
To fill, make full, or bring to completion.
The word for “fulness” belongs to the same family as “fill” and “full.” English can make fullness sound like an abstract quality; the root carries the sense of something brought to its full measure. Here that fullness dwells in him.
ALSO GROWS
plēroō: to fill, fulfill
πληρόω
The verb shares the root’s sense of bringing something to fullness, making the verse’s “fulness” an active, filled reality.
plērēs: full, complete
πλήρης
This adjective shows the same seed in a state of fullness: what dwells in him is complete.
κατοικῆσαι
katoikēsai
GROWS FROM
οἰκ-
oik-
House, dwelling; the word’s verb means to inhabit, settle, or dwell.
“dwell” in this verse is katoikēsai. The verb carries the sense of inhabiting a place, giving fullness a home rather than making it a passing visitor. The verse presents completeness as settled presence in him.
ALSO GROWS
oikos: house, household
οἶκος
The shared root makes dwelling concrete: fullness is pictured as having a home.
oikētērion: dwelling place, habitation
οἰκητήριον
This branch names the place of residence, echoing the verse’s picture of fullness taking up its dwelling.
THE PATTERN
Fullness belongs to God, fills what is his, and is received from its source.
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.THE THREAD
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.This verse repeats the same word for “fulness” and the same image of dwelling in him. It opens Colossians 1:19 further by naming that fullness as the Godhead dwelling bodily.
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