Colossians 1:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅς ἐστιν εἰκὼν τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ἀοράτου, πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως:

Transliteration

Who estin eikōn of the Theou of the aoratou, prōtotokos of all ktiseōs:

Grammar Details

• *estin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *eikōn*: nominative, feminine, singular - image
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God, possessive
• *aoratou*: genitive, masculine, singular - invisible, attribute
• *prōtotokos*: nominative, masculine, singular - firstborn
• *ktiseōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - creation, reference

Word Meanings

• *eikōn*: image/likeness/representation
• *aoratou*: invisible/unseen
• *prōtotokos*: firstborn/preeminent one/first in rank
• *ktiseōs*: creation/created thing

Referenced Verses

• Heb 1:3 : 3 who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had {G1223} {G1438} made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• John 14:9 : 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; {G2532} how sayest thou, Show us the Father?
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded {G1519} the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them].
• John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
• John 1:18 : 18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].
• John 1:1 : 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• Rev 3:14 : 14 And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:
• Rom 8:29 : 29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:
• 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only {G4680} God, [be] honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Phil 2:6 : 6 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
• Ezek 1:26-28 : 26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above. 27 And I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him. 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
• Ps 89:27 : 27 I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.
• Prov 8:29-31 : 29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth; 30 Then I was by him, [as] a master workman; And I was daily [his] delight, Rejoicing always before him, 31 Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.
• Col 1:13 : 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;
• Col 1:16-17 : 16 for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him; 17 and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
• 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 who only hath immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom [be] honor and power eternal. Amen.
• Heb 1:6 : 6 And when he again bringeth in the firstborn into the world he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
• Heb 11:27 : 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
• Exod 24:10 : 10 and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness.
• John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• John 15:24 : 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.