What Does Romans 16:11 Mean in the King James?
Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
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 holds two kinds of belonging together: Herodion is kin, and people from Narcissus’s household are in the Lord.
THE MEANING
Your belonging in the Lord does not erase the human ties that name where you come from. This verse holds kinship and life in the Lord side by side, letting belonging widen without making your origins disappear.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The false belief that belonging to the Lord cancels your family ties. This verse names both at once.
THE ROOT
συγγενῆ
syngenē
GROWS FROM
γεν-
gen-
To be born or come into being; by extension, to share a kind or origin.
“kinsman” in this verse is syngenē. The word joins σύν (syn, “with” or “together”) to the seed γεν- (gen-), so kinship is shared origin. Beside it, the verse names people from Narcissus’s household as also belonging in the Lord, holding inherited ties and a wider belonging together.
ALSO GROWS
genos: Kind, lineage, family, or people.
γένος
It shows that the kinship in “kinsman” belongs to the language of shared kind and lineage.
genesis: Birth, origin, or coming into being.
γένεσις
It brings the sense of origin inside kinship: a kinsman is bound by a shared beginning.
THE PATTERN
Belonging to God can gather people into a wider family while their human ties remain named.
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;THE THREAD
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:The Greek word translated “kinsmen” here shares the γεν- (gen-) root with “kinsman” in Romans 16:11. In this verse the root names kinship by flesh; in Romans 16:11, kinship stands beside people who are in the Lord.
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