What Does Romans 6:9 Mean?
Knowing that the Anointed One, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer masters him.
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
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.THE KEY
The word translated “dominion” comes from the Greek word for “lord”: death is pictured as a ruler, and resurrection ends its rule over Christ.
THE MEANING
The risen Christ dies no more; death no longer rules over him. His life is no longer subject to death’s authority.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that death will eventually reclaim even the risen Christ.
THE ROOT
κυριεύει
kyrieuei
GROWS FROM
κυρι- (kyri-, word family of κύριος, kyrios)
Lord, master; to rule as lord or exercise authority.
“masters” in this verse is kyrieuei. The Greek verb belongs to the word family of κύριος (kyrios), meaning “lord” or “master.” Death is pictured not only as an event, but as a ruler, and the verse says its rule no longer reaches Christ.
ALSO GROWS
kyrios: Lord, master
κύριος
This is the word family’s central image of authority.
kyrieuō: Rule as lord; exercise dominion
κυριεύω
This is the verb used here: death no longer rules over him.
kyriotēs: Lordship, dominion
κυριότης
This related noun makes explicit the authority contained in the word family.
ἐγερθείς
egertheis
GROWS FROM
ἐγειρ- (egeir-, from ἐγείρω, egeirō)
To awaken, rouse, or raise up.
The verb carries the sense of waking as well as raising. Here, being raised from among the dead is joined to a life in which death no longer rules.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: Wake, rouse, raise
ἐγείρω
This is the verb behind “being raised,” holding awakening and rising together.
egersis: Rising, resurrection
ἔγερσις
This related noun names the rising itself, making the shared word family visible.
THE PATTERN
Death remains a real enemy, but resurrection breaks its claim to final rule.
He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord GOD will wipe tears from all faces, and he will remove the taunt of his people from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.Since then the children share in common flesh and blood, he likewise shared in those same things with them, so that through death he might make idle the one who held the strength of death, the Slanderer.I am the living one, and I became dead, and look, I am alive to the ages of the ages, Amen. And I hold the keys of death and of the unseen.THE THREAD
For falling short shall not master you, for you are not under the instruction, but under favor.The same Greek verb, κυριεύω (kyrieuō), meaning “rule as lord,” appears in both verses. Here death no longer rules over Christ; there, sin is said not to rule over you.
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