What Does Revelation 19:13 Mean?
And he is wrapped in a garment dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.
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
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.THE KEY
God’s Word appears as a person, with blood on his garment making his action visible.
THE MEANING
The verse places you before a figure named as God’s Word, already wearing a garment dipped in blood. His name joins what God speaks to a visible, embodied act. The blood remains part of the image; the verse does not hide its violence.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that God’s word is only an idea or spoken message without embodied consequence: here the Word appears as a person, marked by blood.
THE ROOT
λόγος
logos
GROWS FROM
λέγω
legō
To say or speak; λόγος (logos) can mean a word, message, or account.
“Word of God” in this verse is logos. The word-family holds utterance and account together: what is spoken can also be reckoned. Here the name belongs to the blood-clad figure himself, joining God’s Word to embodied action.
ALSO GROWS
logion: Saying, oracle
λόγιον
This branch names a received utterance; the title presents the figure as God’s communicated Word made present.
logizomai: Reckon, account, consider
λογίζομαι
This branch carries the sense of reckoning, resonating with a figure whose blood-marked appearance bears the weight of judgment.
βεβαμμένον
bebammenon
GROWS FROM
βάπτω
baptō
To dip, immerse, dye, or stain.
“garment dipped in blood” in this verse is bebammenon. This Greek word-family carries dipping into immersion and staining; the garment is presented as marked by its contact with blood. Beside the name Logos, the stain makes the Word’s action visible.
ALSO GROWS
baptizō: Immerse
βαπτίζω
The shared root links this garment’s dipping with the broader language of immersion.
baptismos: Immersion, washing
βαπτισμός
This branch preserves the same movement into a substance, clarifying the force of the blood-dipped garment.
THE PATTERN
God’s Word is a living presence whose work takes embodied form and becomes visible.
And the word became flesh and pitched a tent among us, and we beheld his weight, the weight as of the only-born from the Father, full of favor and truth.For the word of God is living and working, and sharper than any two-edged sword, reaching through even to the dividing of living soul and breath, of joints and marrow, and it separates the inward movements and thoughts of the heart.I have trodden the winepress alone, and none of the people was with me. For I will tread them in the burning of my anger, and trample them in my heat. Their blood will be spattered on my garments, and I will soil all my clothing.THE THREAD
For the word of God is living and working, and sharper than any two-edged sword, reaching through even to the dividing of living soul and breath, of joints and marrow, and it separates the inward movements and thoughts of the heart.Both verses use λόγος (logos), “word,” in the phrase “the word of God.” Hebrews names that Word as living and active; Revelation shows the figure bearing its name with blood on his garment, making its action visible.
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