What Does Philippians 2:5 Mean?
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Jesus the Anointed One.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:THE KEY
The mind here is a shared disposition, held in common with Jesus, the Anointed One.
THE MEANING
This verse places the disposition present in Jesus among the people reading it now. The Greek addresses a plural “you,” so this mind belongs to a community, shaping how its members see and meet one another.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the mind associated with Jesus is inaccessible or only private: the verse places that disposition among the people it addresses.
THE ROOT
φρονεῖτε
phroneite
GROWS FROM
φρον
To set the mind; to hold a disposition or orientation.
English “mind” can sound like an isolated faculty, while this word points to an orientation that shapes how a person sees and responds. The verb addresses a plural “you,” placing that disposition among a community.
ALSO GROWS
phronēma: Mindset, inclination.
φρόνημα
This branch names a settled orientation, showing that the verse reaches beyond a passing thought.
phronēsis: Understanding, practical wisdom.
φρόνησις
This branch links the same root family to the way understanding guides judgment and response.
Χριστῷ
Christō
GROWS FROM
χρι
To anoint, mark with oil.
“Christ” in this verse is Christō. The title here means “Anointed One,” carrying identity as a description. The shared disposition is located in Jesus as the Anointed One.
ALSO GROWS
chriō: To anoint.
χρίω
This verb is the action at the root of the title used for Jesus in the verse.
Christos: Anointed one.
χριστός
This is the same title in its base form, making the nature named in “Christ Jesus” visible.
chrisma: Anointing; anointing substance.
χρῖσμα
This noun shares the root and shows the wider word family formed around anointing.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
To deliver, bringing into safety and spaciousness.
The name Jesus reflects יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua, deliverance), from יָשַׁע (yasha, to deliver into spaciousness). The disposition named here belongs to the one whose name carries the movement from constriction toward room.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: To deliver; bring into safety and spaciousness.
יָשַׁע
This verb is the root of Yeshua and makes deliverance part of the name’s nature.
yeshuah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun shares the root and names the movement carried in the name Jesus.
moshia: Deliverer.
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This form names the one who brings deliverance, echoing the nature compressed in Yeshua.
THE PATTERN
A shared inner orientation becomes visible in a community’s common direction.
And may the God of endurance and of comfort give you to set the same mind toward one another, according to Jesus, the Anointed One.For who has known the mind of the LORD, that he might instruct him? But we have the mind of the Anointed One.All these men of war, who set the line in order, came to Hebron with a whole heart, to make David king over all Israel; and all the remnant of Israel also were of one heart to make David king.THE THREAD
And may the God of endurance and of comfort give you to set the same mind toward one another, according to Jesus, the Anointed One.Romans uses the same Greek root family behind “mind” in Philippians, making its shared orientation explicit as being likeminded toward one another. It opens Philippians 2:5 as a way of meeting together according to Christ Jesus.
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