What Does Revelation 19:13 Mean in the King James?
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
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
God’s Word appears as a person, with blood on his garment making his action visible.
THE MEANING
The verse places you before a figure named as God’s Word, already wearing a garment dipped in blood. His name joins what God speaks to a visible, embodied act. The blood remains part of the image; the verse does not hide its violence.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that God’s word is only an idea or spoken message without embodied consequence: here the Word appears as a person, marked by blood.
THE ROOT
λόγος
logos
GROWS FROM
λέγω
legō
To say or speak; λόγος (logos) can mean a word, message, or account.
The word-family holds utterance and account together: what is spoken can also be reckoned. Here the name belongs to the blood-clad figure himself, joining God’s Word to embodied action.
ALSO GROWS
logion: Saying, oracle
λόγιον
This branch names a received utterance; the title presents the figure as God’s communicated Word made present.
logizomai: Reckon, account, consider
λογίζομαι
This branch carries the sense of reckoning, resonating with a figure whose blood-marked appearance bears the weight of judgment.
βεβαμμένον
bebammenon
GROWS FROM
βάπτω
baptō
To dip, immerse, dye, or stain.
“dipped” in this verse is bebammenon. This Greek word-family carries dipping into immersion and staining; the garment is presented as marked by its contact with blood. Beside the name Logos, the stain makes the Word’s action visible.
ALSO GROWS
baptizō: Immerse
βαπτίζω
The shared root links this garment’s dipping with the broader language of immersion.
baptismos: Immersion, washing
βαπτισμός
This branch preserves the same movement into a substance, clarifying the force of the blood-dipped garment.
THE PATTERN
God’s Word is a living presence whose work takes embodied form and becomes visible.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.THE THREAD
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.Both verses use λόγος (logos), “word,” in the phrase “the word of God.” Hebrews names that Word as living and active; Revelation shows the figure bearing its name with blood on his garment, making its action visible.
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