Corintyah Alef 7:2 Let Every Man Have Hisownwife and Let Every Wife Have Her Ownhusband

Shalom,

Corintyah Alef 7:2 Let every man have hisownwife and let every wife have her ownhusband.

First Corinthians is one of those passages that traditional marriage folks always twist. The reason they can twist it and get away with it is byneglectingthe Greek or Aramaic and using English to twist things. Here then is the accurate and correct rendering of this controversial passage.

Corintyah Alef 7:2 Let every man have hisownwife and let every wife have her ownhusband.

At first glance this appears to be another New Covenant Scripture forbidding polygyny. However the first word OWN and the second word OWN are actually different words! Own can be used to refer to things that belong to us or that are associated with us; but in Greek there are 2 different words with two very different meanings. This Scripture states that each man is to have his HEATOU wife, meaning a wife BELONGING to the man. This confirms Torah where a wife is seen as BELONGING to a man for life!

However speaking of the wife's ownership, the word is not heatou but rather IDIOS. The word IDIOS means pertaining to her, or associated with her and does not imply ownership.So in the original scriptures this verse makes 2 crystal clear points. The wife or wives are thepossessionof the husband or his gifts from YHWH to be kept and treasured.

The wife or wives on the other hand areassociatedwith a husband or their own husband. The word IDIOS like idiomatic refers to something but does not indicatepossession. In Luke 2:3 we see this word IDIOS where EVERYONE went to theirown-idios cityto be taxed. We see that many different people-citizens went to Bethlehem their IDIOS-OWN city to be taxed.So the wife can be one of many women-citizens-females associated or identified with the husband-head, whereas the husband is notmerelyassociated with a wife, but they belong exclusively to him and not another man. If she has another man in a sexual manner, that isadultery,punishable by death not by divorce in Torah.

The husband then is her own-or her association-identity to-with a man, but not in an exclusive way. Rather than support mandated monogamy, this verse supports the consistent message of biblical marriage, regardless of how many wives are associated with a husband! This verse speaks of biblical roles and principles and has noreferencewhatsoever to the number of one flesh covenants a man may have, which he can determine in his own personal relationship with Yahuwah.