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Hagios is the word used in the New Testament to mean holy. The New Testament doesn’t speak much about God being holy, but it does talk about God’s Spirit, the Holy Spirit. Hagios can mean set apart, holy, or sacred. I...
Dei is a small word that means it is necessary. Some variations on the definition are it is inevitable or it is a duty. In more than half of the 104 occurrences of this word in the New Testament, dei...
Pater is father or ancestor. Father is pater in Latin, also. Think of English words: paternal, paternity, patrician, and patrimony. Also Jupiter, interestingly enough. Jupiter originated from the latin word iupeter, meaning god-father. Jupiter was the supreme god in Roman mythology. ...
Chronic means continuing a long time or recurring frequently. Chronicle is a record of events in order of time. Chronology is the sequential order in which past events occur or the science of arranging time in periods. Chronological means to be arranged...
Many of you know that Philadelphia in Pennsylvania is known as the city of brotherly love. Phila is from phileo meaning love. Adelphia is from adelphos meaning brother. William Penn named it. He envisioned a city where all kinds of...
And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and the books were opened. Then another book was opened — the Book of Life. And the dead were judged by what was written in...
God. Who is God? In Spanish the word for God is Dios. In French: Dieu. In Portuguese: Deus. In Italian: Dio. In Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish: Gud. In Croatian, Bosnian, and Slovenian: Bog. In Estonian: Jumal and in Finnish: Jumala. ...
Many of you have heard of agape love. Agape is love, benevolence, good will, or esteem. (Strong’s Concordance) Agape is self-sacrificing love, unconditional love. It’s a kind of love that we can show to others because of God working in our...
Eureka, I found it. Our use of this word is credited to Archimedes, a Greek scholar, after he discovered something. I found two different stories about what it was that he discovered. One was about water displacement and the other was...
Faith to move mountains. Faith like a mustard seed. The shield of faith. The faith of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and others in Hebrews 11. Pistis is the Greek word for faith. Pistis can also be translated as belief, trust, or...
