What Does Galatians 4:7 Mean?

“Wherefore”

so too, i.e., thus therefore (in various relations of consecution, as follow)

not yet, no longer

“thou art”

thou art

“a servant”

a slave (literal or figurative, involuntary or voluntary; frequently, therefore in a qualified sense of subjection or subserviency)

“but”

properly, other things, i.e., (adverbially) contrariwise (in many relations)

“a son”

a "son" (sometimes of animals), used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship

“if”

if, whether, that, etc

“and”

but, and, etc

“a son”

a "son" (sometimes of animals), used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship

“then”

and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words

“an heir”

a sharer by lot, i.e., inheritor (literally or figuratively); by implication, a possessor

“of God”

a deity, especially (with g3588) the supreme divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; exceedingly (by hebraism)

“through”

through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional)

“Christ”

anointed, i.e., the messiah, an epithet of jesus