ὄντας (ontas) in Colossians 2:13: Verb Present Active Participle Accusative Plural Masculine

Participle: this form belongs to εἰμί, so it should be read as a verb present active participle accusative plural masculine in Colossians 2:13, not as a detached dictionary label.

Present: often views the action as in progress, customary, or presently in view. Context decides the exact force.

Active: presents the subject as doing or carrying the action.

Participle: carries a verbal idea while also functioning like an adjective or clause element. Context decides its role.

Accusative: the form matches the accusative object ὑμᾶς and here most naturally describes that object within the clause.

Plural: the form refers to more than one addressee, fitting the direct object ὑμᾶς in the sentence.

Masculine: the form is masculine in grammatical form, which does not by itself make a theological statement about male persons.

The accusative object humas, describing the addressees as dead in trespasses before the life-giving action

The surrounding clause that contrasts the addressees' dead condition with God making them alive together with Christ

It supplies the prior condition of the addressees, dead in trespasses and uncircumcision, as the setting for the saving action that follows.

It is not the main finite verb of the verse and should not be read as a separate event apart from the making-alive clause.

High: The participle describes the readers' prior dead condition before God makes them alive with Christ.

Accusative participle describing the object. describes the condition of the addressees when the saving action occurs. Attached to the object humas in Colossians 2:13. Governed by the making-alive clause. The participle supplies the prior condition, while the finite verb carries the saving action.

What condition were the addressees in? They were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of their flesh.

Supporting: The participle supports wording such as "when you were dead" or "being dead," depending on translation style.

The participle relation can be expressed naturally in English without forcing a wooden participial rendering. Masculine plural agreement is grammatical and does not narrow the addressees to men only.

Present participle proves ongoing state by itself: The participle describes the prior condition in the clause; the context determines the timing. case ending alone decides all syntax: Accusative agreement helps identify the relation, but the surrounding clause controls the explanation.

The witness reads ὄντας in Colossians 2:13, within the phrase καὶ ὑμᾶς, νεκροὺς ὄντας ἐν τοῖς παραπτώμασι.

The lemma is εἰμί, a basic verb of being or existing, here appearing as a present active participle with descriptive force.

In context, the participle supplies a condition for ὑμᾶς: the addressees are characterized as dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of their flesh when God made them alive together with Christ.

The grammar supports the sense that their former condition is part of the setup for the life-giving action, not the action itself.

This fits the verse's larger contrast between prior death and the divine act of making alive, a contrast that depends on condition and response, not on morphology alone.

For teaching or translation notes, the form can be rendered with a participial phrase such as being dead, helping readers see the descriptive link to the object.

Do not derive a hidden doctrine from present tense, voice, case, or masculine gender alone, and do not make the participle override the verse's larger argument.