1 Peter 1:19

Webster's Bible (1833)

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, the blood of Christ;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλὰ τιμίῳ αἵματι ὡς ἀμνοῦ, ἀμώμου καὶ ἀσπίλου Χριστοῦ:

Transliteration

But with timiō haimati as of amnou, amōmou and aspilou Christou:

Grammar Details

• *timiō*: dative, neuter, singular - means/instrument
• *haimati*: dative, neuter, singular - means/instrument
• *amnou*: genitive, masculine, singular - comparison
• *amōmou*: genitive, masculine, singular - attributive
• *aspilou*: genitive, masculine, singular - attributive
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - apposition/identification

Word Meanings

• *timiō*: precious/valuable/costly
• *haimati*: blood/bloodshed
• *amnou*: lamb/sheep
• *amōmou*: unblemished/without defect/flawless
• *aspilou*: spotless/unstained/without blemish
• *Christou*: Christ/Messiah/Anointed One

Referenced Verses

• John 1:29 : 29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
• Exod 12:5 : 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
• John 1:36 : 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"
• 1 Pet 2:22-24 : 22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." 23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously; 24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• Col 1:14 : 14 in whom we have our redemption,{TR adds "through his blood,"} the forgiveness of our sins;
• Heb 9:12-14 : 12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh: 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Rev 5:6 : 6 I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, And to open its seals: For you were killed, And bought us for God with your blood, Out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
• Acts 8:32-35 : 32 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, So he doesn't open his mouth. 33 In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth." 34 The eunuch answered Philip, "Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?" 35 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and{TR, NU omit "the Lord and"} God which he purchased with his own blood.
• 1 Cor 5:7-8 : 7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• Eph 1:7 : 7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
• Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Zech 13:7 : 7 "Awake, sword, against my shepherd, And against the man who is close to me," says Yahweh of Hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; And I will turn my hand against the little ones.
• Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
• Matt 26:28 : 28 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
• Rev 7:14 : 14 I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.
• Rev 14:1 : 1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.