παραπτώμασι (paraptomasin) in Colossians 2:13: Noun Dative Plural Neuter

Noun: this form names a trespass or offense, so it functions as a substantive idea rather than an action word.

Dative: this form usually marks the sphere, relation, or circumstance in which something is described, and here it sits inside a prepositional phrase.

Plural: this form is grammatically plural in this occurrence, so the phrase speaks of multiple trespasses or offenses.

Neuter: the noun belongs to the neuter grammatical class, which is a grammar category and not a theological claim about sex or personhood.

ἐν τοῖς παραπτώμασι

The preposition ἐν governs the dative and frames the noun phrase as the setting or condition in which the readers are described.

The phrase tells where the readers were spiritually located, namely in the realm or condition characterized by trespasses.

It does not by itself say that the trespasses are the subject of the clause or that the dative is acting as an object.

High: The dative plural phrase names the trespass condition from which God makes the readers alive.

Dative plural noun governed by ἐν. marks the sphere or condition of trespasses in the prior-death description. Attached to ἐν τοῖς παραπτώμασι. Governed by the preposition ἐν. The form supports the condition language, while the main clause carries the divine action of making alive and forgiving.

In what condition were the readers described as dead? The phrase describes them as dead in trespasses.

Direct: The form directly supports wording such as in your trespasses.

The dative with ἐν may be described as sphere or condition, but the clause controls the theological movement. Plural number points to multiple trespasses or a collective condition and should not be made to count offenses.

Dative case alone defines the doctrine of sin: The form marks the condition in this clause; the passage supplies the rescue and forgiveness claim.

The Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus reads παραπτώμασι within ἐν τοῖς παραπτώμασι, so the witness places the form inside a locative-like dative phrase.

The lemma παράπτωμα names a trespass, misdeed, or falling away, and the plural form points to a repeated or collective moral reality.

Because ἐν governs the dative, the form helps describe the state of the addressed people as existing in trespasses, not merely as encountering them from outside.

The verse presents divine action toward people who were spiritually dead and situated in offenses, then made alive and forgiven.

Within Paul's language, the form fits a common way of speaking about sin as a real condition needing divine rescue and pardon.

For teaching or translation, this form supports rendering the phrase as a condition or sphere, such as 'in your trespasses,' rather than forcing a more technical sense.

Do not derive from the dative alone a hidden doctrinal code, a specific type of trespass, or a claim that grammar overrides the surrounding clause.