What Does Romans 1:6 Mean in the King James?
Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
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
“Also” is the hinge: the call already includes you in the belonging of Jesus Christ.
THE MEANING
You are included among those who belong to Jesus Christ; “ye also” places you inside this company. His name carries deliverance, and Christ names the anointed one, so the belonging here is joined to being brought out and named in relation to the anointed one.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that this belonging is reserved for other people dissolves in the verse’s direct “ye also.”
THE ROOT
κλητοί
klētoi
GROWS FROM
καλ-/κλη- (kal-/klē-)
The Greek call-family: to call, summon, or invite.
κλητοί (klētoi) means “called ones,” from the call-family also seen in καλέω (kaleō), “to call,” and κλῆσις (klēsis), “a calling.” English “called” can sound like a label applied from outside; this word-family holds the summons and the belonging it opens together.
ALSO GROWS
kaleō: To call, summon, or invite.
καλέω
This verb is the call-family’s central form, showing that being “called” carries the sense of being summoned into relation.
klēsis: A calling or summons.
κλῆσις
The related noun shows that the call is an active summons, not merely a status placed on someone.
epikaleō: To call upon or invoke.
ἐπικαλέω
This compound preserves the same call-family and shows how a call can establish a direct relation.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yēshūaʿ
GROWS FROM
יָשַׁע
yashaʿ
To deliver or bring out from constriction into spaciousness.
The Greek name Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous, Jesus) carries the Hebrew name יֵשׁוּעַ (Yēshūaʿ), from יָשַׁע (yashaʿ), “to deliver, bring out.” The name holds deliverance inside the identity of the one whose call gathers you.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun shares the root and shows that the name Jesus carries the movement of being brought out.
moshiaʿ: Deliverer; one who brings out.
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This word names the one performing the root’s action, illuminating the deliverance held in Jesus’ name.
Χριστοῦ
Christou
GROWS FROM
χρίω
chriō
To anoint, to apply oil.
“Christ” in this verse is Christou. Χριστός (Christos) means “the anointed one,” from χρίω (chriō), “to anoint.” The title holds an act inside the identity: Jesus is the anointed one, and the call names belonging in relation to him.
ALSO GROWS
Christos: The anointed one.
Χριστός
This title names the one who bears the anointing, so “Jesus Christ” carries a nature as well as a name.
chrisma: Anointing; the substance or act of anointing.
χρῖσμα
This related word makes the root’s action visible within the title “the anointed one.”
THE PATTERN
The call names people into belonging across boundaries of prior exclusion.
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.THE THREAD
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.The word translated “called” is κλητοῖς (klētois, “called ones”), from the same Greek call-family as κλητοί (klētoi) in Romans 1:6. Here the text makes the reach visible: both Jews and Greeks stand among those called, so “ye also” belongs to a shared inclusion across dividing lines.
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