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The Greek word translated as "vain repetitions" is βατταλογήσητε (battalogein). This word is unknown outside this verse, appearing in no other literature contemporaneous with the text. It may be linked to the Greek term for "babbling", or be derived from the Hebrew batel, meaning "vain".
Ayin (Hebrew: אַיִן, lit. 'nothingness', related to אֵין ʾên, lit. ' not ') is an important concept in Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy.It is contrasted with the term Yesh (Hebrew: יֵשׁ, lit.
Jesus probably did not originally compose the prayer in Greek, but in his native language, but the consensus view is that the New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek. This implies the probability of language interpretation (i.e., spoken Aramaic to written Greek) at the outset of recording the Gospel. Thus, the meaning of any such ...
They are lacking in the "earliest and best witnesses", and several ancient Greek manuscripts that do contain them enclose them with markings indicating doubts about their authenticity, the passage contains words or expressions that appear nowhere else in John (such as the Greek words for "at a certain season [meaning occasionally]" and ...
Individual prayer is described by the Tanakh two ways. The first of these is when prayer is described as occurring, and a result is achieved, but no further information regarding a person's prayer is given. In these instances, such as with Isaac, [1] Moses, [2] Samuel, [3] and Job, [4] the act of praying is a method of changing a situation for ...
The original word ἐπιούσιος , commonly characterized as daily, is unique to the Lord's Prayer in all of ancient Greek literature. The word is almost a hapax legomenon , occurring only in Luke and Matthew's versions of the Lord's Prayer, and nowhere else in any other extant Greek texts. [ 4 ]
The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children, abbreviated Pr Azar, [1] is a passage which appears after Daniel 3:23 in some translations of the Bible, including the ancient Greek Septuagint translation. The passage is accepted by some Christian denominations as canonical. The passage includes three main components.
Prayer may occur privately and individually (sometimes called affective prayer), [13] or collectively, shared by or led on behalf of fellow-believers of either a specific faith tradition or a broader grouping of people. [14] Prayer can be incorporated into a daily "thought life", in which one is in constant communication with a god.