King James Version
Galatians 1:16 in the King James Version says “To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:” — study this verse from Galatians chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:”
Galatians 1:16 · KJV
And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. equals: Gr. equals in years
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. went up: or, returned
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“Son”
G5207a "son" (sometimes of animals), used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship
“him”
G846the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
“him”
G846the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
“the heathen”
G1484a race (as of the same habit), i.e., a tribe; specially, a foreign (non-jewish) one (usually, by implication, pagan)
“I conferred”
G4323to lay up in addition, i.e., (middle voice and figuratively) to impart or (by implication) to consult
“with flesh”
G4561flesh (as stripped of the skin), i.e., (strictly) the meat of an animal (as food), or (by extension) the body (as opposed to the soul (or spirit), or
“and”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“blood”
G129blood, literally (of men or animals), figuratively (the juice of grapes) or specially (the atoning blood of christ); by implication, bloodshed, also k
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