THE MARRIAGE BED

HEBREWS 13:4 EXEGESIS

OLD TESTAMENT FOUNDATION

Genesis 1:26, 27 -28“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion.”

Genesis 2:18, 21-25 “And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an helpmeet for him.  And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.  And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.  And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.”

Genesis 9:1, 7 “And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.  And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.”

GREEK EXEGESIS

 “marriage”

gamos

marriage, wedding, nuptials

“is honorable”

timios (from root word time)

valuable, costly, honored, esteemed, beloved, dear, most precious, had in reputation

“in all,”

pas

all, any, every, the whole, always, every way, thoroughly, the whole

“and the bed”

koite  (from keimai to lie outstretched)

a couch, by extension cohabitation, by implication the male sperm, bed, chambering

“undefiled:”

A (alpha)

first letter of the Greek alphabet meaning, union

amiantos

unsoiled, pure, undefiled, unpolluted, free from stain, kept sacred

miaino

sully, taint, contaminate, defile (ceremonially or morally)

“but whoremongers”

pornos

to sell, merchandise, prostitute, fornicator, adulterers, whoremonger

piprasko

to traverse, traffic, sell

peran

to pierce through, across, beyond, over, other side

“and adulterers”

moichos

adulterers, practice vice and adultery, unchaste, immoral, those who commit adultery, sexually vicious

“God “

theos

Supreme deity, divinity, Hebraism, very God, exceeding God

“will judge.”

krino

to distinguish, decide, try, conclude, decree, determine, judge

NEW TESTAMENT FOUNDATION

Matthew 9:4 “Have you not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,”

Matthew 9:5 “And said, for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife:”

Matthew 19:6 “Wherefore they are no more two but one flesh.”

Matthew 19:6 “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

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