Colossians 3:3
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”
Χριστός
The one set apart and equipped for a specific task. Oil was poured on kings, priests and prophets in the Old Testament — the anointing meant: this one is chosen, this one is sent. Jesus stands up in Nazareth and reads Isaiah — and then says: this is Me. I am the one sent.
ζωή
Life
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ζωή
Life, living, existence. Zoe. I am the way the truth and the life. Zoe is divine life, not biological existence. It is the life of God shared with human beings through Christ.
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Ἰησοῦς
Christ
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Ἰησοῦς
Jesus. Iesous. The Greek form of Yeshua meaning the LORD saves. The name given before His birth. In His name is salvation healing and authority over every power of darkness.
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θεός
God;
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θεός
God. Theos. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The ultimate reality. The source of all existence. Personal knowable and present.
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νεκρός
Dead
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νεκρός
Dead, lifeless, without power. Nekros. God who gives life to the dead. If God can raise the dead there is nothing in your situation that is beyond His power to restore.
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ἀποθνήσκω
Dead
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ἀποθνήσκω
To die, to be dying. Apothnesko. For me to live is Christ and to die is gain. Death for the believer is not loss. It is arrival. It is the beginning of everything.
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κρύπτω
has been hidden
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κρύπτω
to conceal (properly, by covering)
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