What Does Hebrews 6:6 Mean in the King James?
If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
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 verse links the lost possibility of turning with the person’s own act of crucifying the Son again and exposing him to public shame.
THE MEANING
Here, falling away is presented as a condition from which renewal into turning is impossible: the person is crucifying the Son of God again for themselves and exposing him to public disgrace. The verse speaks now of a repudiation that is not a private change of mind but a visible act against the Son.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that every rejection is merely a reversible lapse; this passage names a falling away for which renewal into turning is impossible.
THE ROOT
ἀνασταυροῦντας
anastaurountas
GROWS FROM
σταυρ-
staur-
Stake; the cross as a stake on which a person is fixed.
“crucify afresh” in this verse is anastaurountas. The prefix gives the verb the sense of doing the crucifixion again, while the same stem names the cross and forms a word for being crucified with someone. The verse describes the falling away through a renewed crucifixion directed “to themselves,” not as a private regret.
ALSO GROWS
stauros: Cross, stake
σταυρός
The noun names the instrument at the center of the verb’s image of crucifixion.
systauroō: Crucify together or with someone
συσταυρόω
This related verb uses the same crucifixion stem to describe being joined with another in crucifixion.
ἀνακαινίζειν
anakainizein
GROWS FROM
καιν-
kain-
New, fresh; newness.
“renew” in this verse is anakainizein. This verb carries newness in its stem, and the verse also says “again,” intensifying the request as renewal once more. Its word family connects renewing with newness itself, so the verb points to being made new toward turning.
ALSO GROWS
kainos: New, fresh
καινός
This is the adjective at the heart of the renewal word family.
anakainoō: Renew, make new
ἀνακαινόω
This related verb uses the same newness stem for the act of renewal.
παραδειγματίζοντας
paradeigmatizontas
GROWS FROM
δεικ-
deik-
Show, point out, make visible.
“put him to an open shame” in this verse is paradeigmatizontas. The verb makes disgrace visible by exposing someone as a public example. “Open shame” therefore names a public act of contempt, paired with the verse’s image of the Son being crucified again.
ALSO GROWS
deigma: Example, specimen
δείγμα
This noun names something shown as an example, the visible result carried by the shame verb.
deigmatizō: Expose as an example, make a public example of
δειγματίζω
This related verb shares the showing stem and makes the public exposure explicit.
THE PATTERN
Scripture portrays rejection of the one who bears God’s work as visible reproach and contempt.
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?THE THREAD
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.The verb ἀνακαινοῦται (anakainoutai, is renewed) belongs to the same newness family as “renew” here. Hebrews speaks of renewal toward turning; this verse uses the related verb for the inward person’s renewal day by day.
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