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G602 names a revelation, disclosure, or unveiling. The noun does not by itself identify what is revealed, how it is communicated, or whether the passage concerns present knowledge, congregational speech, judgment, or Christ's future appearing.
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G602 names a revelation, disclosure, or unveiling. The noun does not by itself identify what is revealed, how it is communicated, or whether the passage concerns present knowledge, congregational speech, judgment, or Christ's future appearing.
The BSB source-word alignment has 18 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include revelation (7), [the] revelation (3), a revelation (2), revelations (2), [ This is the ] revelation (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 2:32. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Corinthians (3), 1 Peter (3), Romans (3), 2 Corinthians (2).
G602 names a revelation, disclosure, or unveiling. The noun does not by itself identify what is revealed, how it is communicated, or whether the passage concerns present knowledge, congregational speech, judgment, or Christ's future appearing. Galatians 1:12 describes the gospel Paul received through a revelation of Jesus Christ, while Galatians 2:2 explains that he went to Jerusalem in response to a revelation.
Romans 16:25 speaks of a mystery once concealed and now disclosed. First Corinthians 14 uses the noun for revelation shared in the gathered church, and First Peter connects Christ's revelation with future grace and tested faith. The word therefore cannot be reduced either to catastrophe or to a general endorsement of private impressions that claim authority over the apostolic gospel.
The local Greek index currently counts about 17 occurrences for exact Strong's ID G602. The passages use the noun for disclosed gospel and mystery, revelation in congregational speech, the revealing of persons or judgment, and the future revelation of Jesus Christ.
I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
Paul denies receiving or learning his gospel from a human source and locates its reception in a revelation of Jesus Christ. The wording should be read with Galatians 1:11-24 rather than used as a general theory of revelation.
I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running or had already run in vain.
Paul says he went in response to a revelation and privately set his Gentile gospel before recognized leaders. The verse joins divine direction with accountable consultation rather than opposing them.
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
Paul prays for wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God, followed by opened hearts that know the hope, inheritance, and power named in the passage. The verse does not define a free-standing method for acquiring new doctrine.
Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
The doxology links strengthening, Paul's gospel, the proclamation of Jesus Christ, and the revelation of a mystery once concealed but now made known.
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Peter directs hope toward the grace to be brought at Jesus Christ's revelation. The future use differs from Paul's description of receiving the gospel in Galatians 1.
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Greek word. Divine truth unveiled or made manifest; God's self-disclosure to humanity, not merely human discovery.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 6 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
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ἀποκάλυψις is built from this root:
G602 asks the teacher to name what is disclosed and how the passage frames it. Galatians 1 concerns the origin of Paul's gospel, while Galatians 2 holds revelation and consultation together. Romans 16 concerns a formerly concealed mystery now made known; First Corinthians 14 concerns intelligible contribution and order in the assembly; Romans 2 and 8 concern the revealing of judgment and of God's children; several passages look toward Jesus Christ's future revelation.
These are related uses, not interchangeable claims. The word cannot make a private impression authoritative, turn Ephesians 1:17 into a promise of new doctrine, or reduce Christ's appearing to disaster imagery. The sermon should follow the local subject, content, audience, and time frame before drawing a larger theology of divine disclosure.
Gal.1.12
The noun belongs to the word family for revealing or uncovering and can refer to an act of disclosure, what is disclosed, or a future revealing. Etymology may illustrate the gloss but cannot decide the content, source, authority, or time frame in a given verse; those come from syntax and context.
Daniel 2 provides a direct thematic parallel for a mystery that human wisdom cannot disclose but God reveals. Romans 16 and Ephesians 3 use concealment-and-disclosure language for the gospel mystery. This is a canonical relationship of theme and claim, not proof that the Greek noun G602 occurs in Daniel's underlying text.