15 Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Colossians 1:15. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
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Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
ὅς ἐστιν εἰκὼν τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ἀοράτου, πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως·
ὅς
ἐστιν
εἰκὼν
τοῦ
Θεοῦ
τοῦ
ἀοράτου
πρωτότοκος
- Lemma
- prwtotokov
- Transliteration
- prwtotokov
- Morphology
- Greek: adjective nominative singular masculine
- Part of Speech
- adjective
- Strong's
- G4416
- Occurrences
- 3
πάσης
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
ὅς ἐστιν εἰκὼν τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ἀοράτου, πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως,
ἐστιν
τοῦ
θεοῦ
τοῦ
πρωτότοκος
- Lemma
- πρωτότοκος
- Morphology
- A-NSM-S
- Part of Speech
- A
- Strong's
- G4416
- Occurrences
- 8
Coverage: New Testament
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܗܘ ܕܗܘܝܘ ܕܡܘܬܐ ܕܐܠܗܐ ܕܠܐ ܡܬܚܙܐ ܘܒܘܟܪܐ ܕܟܠܗܝܢ ܒܪܝܬܐ
ܗܘ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܗܘ
- Transliteration
- hu
- Morphology
- pronoun/copula, masculine singular
- Gloss
- he, it, is
- Occurrences
- 1648
ܕܗܘܝܘ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܗܘܝܘ
- Transliteration
- dhwyw
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 19
ܕܡܘܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܡܘܬܐ
- Transliteration
- dmwt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 38
ܕܐܠܗܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܐܠܗܐ
- Transliteration
- d'lh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 586
ܕܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܠܐ
- Transliteration
- dl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 720
ܡܬܚܙܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܬܚܙܐ
- Transliteration
- mthz'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 22
ܘܒܘܟܪܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܒܘܟܪܐ
- Transliteration
- wbwkr'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 2
ܕܟܠܗܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܟܠܗܝܢ
- Transliteration
- dklhyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 8
ܒܪܝܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܪܝܬܐ
- Transliteration
- bryt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 16
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
qui est imago Dei invisibilis, primogenitus omnis creaturæ:
qui
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- qui
- Transliteration
- qui
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 15011
est
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- est
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
imago
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- imago
- Transliteration
- imago
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 51
Dei
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- deus
- Transliteration
- Dei
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Gloss
- God
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- God, deity
- Etymology
- Latin noun for God or a god.
- Occurrences
- 4889
invisibilis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- inuisibilis
- Transliteration
- invisibilis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 9
primogenitus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- primogenitus
- Transliteration
- primogenitus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 136
omnis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- omnis
- Transliteration
- omnis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 5506
creaturae
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- creatura
- Transliteration
- creaturae
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 40
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Hebrews 1:3
Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;
102 relevance votesJohn 14:9
Jesus said to him, Philip, have I been with you all this time, and still you have no knowledge of me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. Why do you say, Let us see the Father?
58 relevance votesJohn 1:1
From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.
51 relevance votes2 Corinthians 4:4
Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
43 relevance votesJohn 1:18
No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.
40 relevance votesJohn 1:14
And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory — such glory as is given to an only son by his father — saw it to be true and full of grace.
35 relevance votesPsalms 89:27
And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth.
29 relevance votes2 Corinthians 4:6
Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
26 relevance votesPhilippians 2:6
To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;
23 relevance votes1 Timothy 1:17
Now to the King eternal, ever-living, unseen, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.
21 relevance votesRomans 8:29
Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
19 relevance votesRevelation 3:14
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order:
16 relevance votes