Galatians 4:3
King James Version
7 Jun 2026
“Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:”
ὅτε
When, at the time when, after. When the fullness of time had come God sent His Son. God's timing is always right. He never acts too early or too late.
στοιχεῖον
basic principles
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στοιχεῖον
something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively)
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κόσμος
world
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κόσμος
The world, the ordered universe. God so loved the kosmos. He loves what He made and He is working to redeem every part of it.
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νήπιος
children,
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νήπιος
not speaking, i.e. an infant (minor); figuratively, a simple-minded person, an immature Christian
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δουλόω
held in bondage;
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δουλόω
to enslave (literally or figuratively)
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εἰμί
we ourselves were
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εἰμί
I exist (used only when emphatic)
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