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The New Year is just around the corner. It’s a time when many people make resolutions, hoping to be a better person in some way. Some fail, some succeed. One of the words for new in the New Testament is...
Son of God. Son of man. Two phrases that describe the divinity and the humanity of Jesus. Around 2,000 years ago, God sent his son to this earth as a baby, to become Mary’s son. This is the Christmas story. ...
Joy to the World, the Lord has come! Most everyone has heard this song. This is what Christmas is about. The Lord coming to earth as a child, the King of kings, the Lord of lords to bring peace and...
‘Tis the season for peace on earth and good will towards men. (Luke 2:14) Eirene is Greek for peace, peace of mind, quietness, rest, one. (biblehub.com) Eirene was the goddess of peace in ancient Greece. For some reason Irene was the...
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...
As promised, here is woman. Gyne is a Greek word that means woman or wife. According to Thayer’s Greek Lexicon this woman can be “a woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow”. (Thayer’s Greek Lexicon...
Here is the other man of the New Testament, aner. Aner can mean man or husband. According to Strongs’, it occurs 216 times in the New Testament. Women, fear not, I will be sharing the word for woman next week. ...
