Language Learning Mom – A mom sharing her language learning experiences
monthly archives November - 2016
Apostello is a Greek word that means to send or to send forth. This isn’t the only word for send that shows up in the New Testament. This sending is more focused on sending for a purpose, sending to do something. ...
Phobos is the Greek word for fear. This word is where we get the English phobia, which can be a suffix for many words. You may have heard of arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, or claustrophobia, the fear of being...
Sophistication is “the art of using wisdom.” Philosophy is “affection for wisdom.” The Greek word sophia can mean wisdom, insight, skill, or intelligence. (Definitions from Helps Word-studies at biblehub.com.) This sophia wisdom can be the wisdom of man, as in the ‘wisdom of...
Onoma is Greek for name, character, or reputation. I’m going to quote Helps Word-studies here: Name is “the manifestation or revelation of someone’s character, i.e. as distinguishing them from all others.” (Helps Word-studies at biblehub.com). Think of the word anonymous–without...
