What Does Titus 3:6 Mean in the King James?
Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
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 breath reaches you as an abundant outpouring through the deliverer whose name carries the nature of rescue.
THE MEANING
The Set-Apart Breath is poured out upon you abundantly through Jesus, your deliverer. What renews you arrives as a gift from God, in abundance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that God’s restoring gift comes only in scarce measure: the verse says it is poured out richly.
THE ROOT
ἐξέχεεν
exécheen from ekchéō
GROWS FROM
χέω
cheō
To pour; with ek-, to pour out or forth.
The word translated “shed” pictures an outflow: what is poured is released onto you. The same pouring language appears when God’s breath is poured out on people, opening the image beyond a simple transfer of something held back.
ALSO GROWS
cheō: to pour
χέω
The base verb shows that “shed” carries the concrete image of liquid flowing out.
ekchéō: to pour out, shed forth
ἐκχέω
This is the verb family used for divine outpouring elsewhere, connecting this gift with what God releases onto people.
πλουσίως
plousiōs
GROWS FROM
πλουτ-
plout-
Wealth, riches, abundance.
“abundantly” in this verse is plousiōs. The verse describes the outpouring with the language of wealth: it comes richly, not as a meager allotment. Abundance belongs to the character of the gift itself.
ALSO GROWS
ploutos: wealth, riches
πλοῦτος
The related noun shows the richness carried by “abundantly.”
plouteō: to be rich, have abundance
πλουτέω
This verb keeps the same image of fullness rather than scarcity.
σωτῆρος
sōtēros
GROWS FROM
σώζω
sōzō
To deliver, rescue, bring through safely.
“Saviour” names the one who delivers. Jesus’ name, Yeshua (יֵשׁוּעַ; yēšūaʿ), carries the nature of yasha (יָשַׁע; yāšaʿ): deliverance from narrowness into spaciousness.
ALSO GROWS
sōzō: to deliver, rescue, preserve
σῴζω
The verb reveals the active movement inside the title “Saviour.”
sōtēria: deliverance, rescue
σωτηρία
The related noun names the deliverance that the Saviour brings.
THE PATTERN
What God pours out reaches people as a gift, extending beyond the boundaries they expect.
Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.THE THREAD
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:“Pour out” uses the same Greek verb family as “shed” in Titus. Acts opens the image further: the outpouring reaches all flesh, making the abundance in Titus part of a wider release.
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