The regular Greek word for "vine" is ἄμπελος, of generic signification. Grapes are designated by various names: (1.) Eshkol (אֶשׁכֹּל) is either "a cluster," ripe or unripe, like racemus, or a "single grape" (as in Isa 65:8; Mic 7:1). ...
c. Tryph. page 205, for which reason Luther happily renders the word by Denkzettel), or from the use of them as amulets (Lat. praebia, Gr. περιαπτά, Grotius ad Mt 23:5). Φυλακτήριον is the ordinary Greek word for an amn ulet (Plutarch, 2:378, B,...
For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.” The Greek word here is harpadso, meaning “snatched up” to be with Christ. When Christ comes to set up his earthly kingdom at the end of the tribulation, he will come with power and the holy...
When I was a boy one would have been laughed at for supposing there had been a real Homer: the disintegrators seemed to have triumphed for ever. But Homer seems to be creeping back. Even the belief of the ancient Greeks that the Mycenaeans were their ancestors and spoke Greek has been ...
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: 21 That make a man an...
a Greek translation of the Hebrews מָשַׁיחִ, Messiah, and so used in the Sept.), the official title of our Savior (occurring first in 2 Esdr. 7:29, and constantly in the New Test.), as having been consecrated to his redemptive work by the baptism at Jordan, ...
This is not the teaching of the Bible itself, but an idea that has grown out of the Latin word which as supplanted the more thoughtful terms used in the Hebrew and in the Greek Scriptures. A "miracle," miraculum, is something wonderful — marvellous. Now no doubt all God's works are ...
In these passages, both in the Greek of the evangelist [Μεσσίας, or (as Griesbach preferred to read) Μεσίας, more closely like the original] and in the Hebrew of the prophet [מָשַׁיח], there is an absence of the article-the word having, in ...
At Alexandria the literary Jew added the study of Plato to the teachings of the Law, and learned to qualify the anthropomorphism of the latter by the transcendental notions of the Deity conveyed in the purest form of Greek philosophy. By a natural progression the anthropopathic descriptions of ...
— This collection of sacred poetry received its English name, Psalms, from the Greek of the Septuagint, ψαλμοί, in consequence of the lyrical character of the pieces of which it consists, as intended to be sung to stringed and other instruments of music. The word (from ψάλ...