What Does Ephesians 2:6 Mean in the King James?
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
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 repeated Greek prefix for “with” binds raising and seating into one shared reality in Christ.
THE MEANING
You are described as already raised with Christ and seated with him in the heavenly places. Your present life is held in a shared belonging whose place is described as heavenly because it is “in Christ Jesus.”
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Your place with Christ is only a future hope, beginning after death.
THE ROOT
συνήγειρεν
synēgeiren
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω
ἐγείρω (egeirō): to rouse, awaken, or raise.
“raised us up together” in this verse is synēgeiren. This verb carries the sense of waking as well as raising, so the phrase opens onto awakening into shared life. The prefix συν- adds “with”: the raising is participation with Christ.
ALSO GROWS
egersis: a rising or resurrection
ἔγερσις
This noun from the same Greek stem names the act of rising, bringing resurrection into the sense of being raised together.
exegeirō: to raise up or rouse
ἐξεγείρω
This compound retains the ἐγείρω stem and makes the movement of being roused or raised explicit.
συνεκάθισεν
synekathisen
GROWS FROM
σύν
σύν (syn): with, together; a prefix marking shared action.
“together, in “made us sit together”” in this verse is synekathisen. The prefix appears on both coordinated actions: raised-with and seated-with. The shared participation is marked twice, binding the raising and the seating into one movement in Christ.
ALSO GROWS
synēgeiren: raised together
συνήγειρεν
The verse uses σύν in this first verb to mark the raising as shared with Christ.
synekathisen: seated together
συνεκάθισεν
The same prefix marks the seating as shared, carrying the togetherness from raising into place.
THE PATTERN
God’s raising carries the one lifted into shared life and a place of honor.
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.THE THREAD
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.Colossians uses the same Greek verb family for being raised with Christ, with the same σύν (“with”) relationship. It places God’s raising of Christ and your shared rising together in one sentence, opening the force of “raised us up together.”
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