What Does Ephesians 6:14 Mean in the King James?
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
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
Truth gathers your center, while alignment covers your chest.
THE MEANING
You stand as truth binds your center and alignment guards your chest. The verse pictures stability as something held together by what is brought into the open and by a life brought into right relation.
THE ROOT
ἀλήθεια
alētheia
GROWS FROM
λανθαν-
lanthan-
to be hidden or escape notice; ἀλήθεια is commonly traced to a negated form of this hiddenness
The word carries the sense of what is no longer concealed. Here truth surrounds the loins: the body’s center is girded by what has come into the open.
ALSO GROWS
lanthanō: be hidden, escape notice
λανθάνω
It names the hiddenness that the word for truth brings into view.
lēthē: forgetfulness, oblivion
λήθη
It shows how what is hidden can also slip from awareness.
alēthēs: true, genuine
ἀληθής
This related word describes what is not concealed or false.
δικαιοσύνη
dikaiosynē
GROWS FROM
δίκ-
dik-
what is right or just; right relation
“righteousness” in this verse is dikaiosynē. The word family extends from what is right into the quality and expression of that rightness. Heard as alignment, the breastplate pictures the chest held in right relation.
ALSO GROWS
dikē: justice, what is right
δίκη
It names the root idea of right order within the word family.
dikaios: just, right
δίκαιος
It describes a person or thing in right relation.
dikaiōma: a right act, ordinance
δικαίωμα
It shows rightness taking concrete form.
THE PATTERN
Scripture pictures readiness as a body gathered and protected by truth and right alignment.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;THE THREAD
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.Here the breastplate of righteousness appears in the same form, placing your image of armor within a larger scriptural picture of alignment covering the chest. The verse also places a helmet beside it, extending the protective image over the head.
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