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The Greek word apsinthos, which is rendered with the English "wormwood", [3] is mentioned only once in the New Testament, in the Book of Revelation: The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood.
Pages in category "New Testament Greek words and phrases" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Greek word for compassion is ἐσπλαγχνίσθη, which is, "pitied them from His inmost bowels." Lapide notes that, "there is no animal so simple, careless, improvident, so exposed to be the prey of wolves and other wild beasts, and therefore so needing a keeper, as a sheep."
Therefore, various translations have been completed over the centuries to make it easier for Greek speakers to understand Holy Scripture. Translations of the Old Testament, which is the other part of the Christian Bible, have been completed for similar reasons. Agapius of Crete translated and published in 1543 the book of Psalms into modern ...
Page from Codex Sinaiticus with text of Matthew 6:4–32 Alexandrinus – Table of κεφάλαια (table of contents) to the Gospel of Mark. The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain (or originally contained) the entire text of the Bible (Old and New Testament) in Greek.
Matthew 1:21 is the twenty-first verse of the first chapter in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Joseph is being spoken to in a dream by an angel.In this verse, the angel tells Joseph to call the child "Jesus", "because he will save his people from their sins".
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". It is often assumed to be a related to the word polugein, [clarification needed] and thus a reference to a large quantity of words. [1]
Two different models of the process of creation existed in ancient Israel. [15] In the "logos" (speech) model, God speaks and shapes unresisting dormant matter into effective existence and order (Psalm 33: "By the word of YHWH the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their hosts; he gathers up the waters like a mound, stores the Deep in vaults"); in the second, or "agon ...