What Does Romans 14:9 Mean in the King James?
For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
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
“Revived” and “living” grow from the same Greek life-root: the one who lives again holds lordship over both the dead and the living.
THE MEANING
The one who dies and lives again stands as Lord over the dead and the living. Death does not put anyone beyond his authority, and life does not stand outside it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Death is the point where Christ’s authority stops and the dead are beyond his reach.
THE ROOT
ἔζησεν
ezēsen
GROWS FROM
ζάω
zaō
to live, be alive
“revived / living” in this verse is ezēsen. The KJV’s “revived” and “living” are forms of the same Greek life-root. The verse joins Christ’s life after death to the living he rules, so one life-root spans both conditions.
ALSO GROWS
zōē: life
ζωή
This noun makes explicit the life named by the root shared between “revived” and “living.”
zōopoieō: make alive, give life
ζωοποιέω
This related verb shows the same life-root extending to the act of making alive.
ἀνέστη
anestē
GROWS FROM
ἀνίστημι
anistēmi
to stand up, arise
“Rose” carries the sense of standing up or arising. Its word-family also names resurrection, joining the action in this verse to the larger language of rising from death.
ALSO GROWS
anastasis: resurrection, arising
ἀνάστασις
This noun uses the same word-family to name the rising from death that “rose” expresses as an action.
anastēthi: arise, stand up
ἀνάστηθι
This imperative form makes the family’s concrete sense of standing up visible.
THE PATTERN
Life-giving authority reaches across death, holding the dead and the living within its rule.
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.THE THREAD
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.The Greek verb ζάω (zaō, “to live”) also stands behind “liveth” and “alive” in Revelation 1:18. The same life-root appears beside “was dead,” making visible the one who passes through death and holds its keys.
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