What Does Romans 4:24 Mean in the King James?

But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

Romans 4:24 · KJV

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

What is counted to us rests on trusting the One who raises the dead.

THE MEANING

The reader is included in a reckoning that rests on trust in God, the one who raises Jesus our Lord from the dead. Here, trust is reliance on the raiser, and “imputed” names what is counted rather than something the reader manufactures. Jesus bears the name Yeshua (⁨יֵשׁוּעַ⁩, Yeshua, deliverance), from yasha (⁨יָשַׁע⁩, yasha, to deliver from narrowness into spaciousness), so deliverance is carried in the very name of the one raised.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A standing with God must be built by the reader before it can be counted.

THE ROOT

λογίζεσθαι

logizesthai

GROWS FROM

λογιζ-

logiz-

Reckon, count, account.

The word is accounting language: what is “imputed” is actively reckoned, and Romans 4 repeats this verb for what is counted. The repetition keeps the focus on what God counts in relation to trust, rather than on something the reader manufactures.

ALSO GROWS

logismos: A calculation or reasoning.

λογισμός

It shows the family’s connection to deliberate reckoning, not merely a vague impression.

logistēs: A reckoner or accountant.

λογιστής

This branch makes the verse’s accounting image concrete: something is entered into an account.

πιστεύουσιν

pisteuousin

GROWS FROM

πιστ-

pist-

Trust, reliance, firmness.

“believe” in this verse is pisteuousin. The form describes people trusting, not holding a detached opinion. Its word-family joins trust with firmness, so reliance is placed in the God the verse names as the raiser of Jesus.

ALSO GROWS

pistis: Trust or reliance.

πίστις

The noun makes clear that “believe” here names a relation of trust, not only agreement with a claim.

pistos: Firm, steady, trustworthy.

πιστός

This branch shows the other side of reliance: trust rests on someone regarded as dependable.

ἐγείραντα

egeiranta

GROWS FROM

ἐγερ-

eger-

Wake, rouse, raise.

“raised up” in this verse is egeiranta. The verb can mean waking or rousing as well as raising. The verse locates trust in the God whose action brings Jesus up from the condition called dead.

ALSO GROWS

egersis: A rising or raising; resurrection.

ἔγερσις

This noun carries the same raising action into the language of resurrection.

diegeirō: Rouse, awaken, stir up.

διεγείρω

This related verb preserves the root’s sense of waking or stirring something into action.

THE PATTERN

God’s reckoning can count trust toward righteousness and leave trespasses uncounted against a person.

And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 15:6 · KJVTrust is counted as righteousness through the same accounting image.

For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

Romans 4:3 · KJV“Counted” comes from the same reckon-family as “imputed” here.

To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 5:19 · KJV“Not imputing” uses the same reckon-family to describe trespasses left uncounted against the world.

THE THREAD

For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

Romans 4:3 · KJV

“Counted” is the same Greek reckoning word as “imputed” here. The words “for us also” open that same reckoning outward, making the repeated root a signal of inclusion.

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