Amram – Name meaning “exalted nation” Eli – Hebrew name that comes from “aly” (high). The biblical Eli was a high priest and the last judge of Israel. He trained the prophet, Samuel. Genesis –Gender-neutral namewithGreekand Hebrew origins; name means “origin” or “birth” ...
Passive Plural mood. Aorist = an act which occurred in a point of time in the past which is effective in the present, now. Passive = lying down doing nothing. Plural = it affects many. Summing up the meaning here is that the individual person is passive - we are the passive ones, an...
Proverbs 13:15 Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain. Proverbs 13:16 Or prudent protect themselves through Proverbs 14:22 Or show Proverbs 14:33 Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac discerning / but in the heart of fools she is not known ...
Some Christians have a narrow view of what godly women can be and can do. They believe their view is based on what the Bible shows us about women. They have even named their view “Biblical Womanhood.” These Christians seem to think that godly women are limited to being wives and mother...
In Biblical times, camels went through the eye of a needle because they were the unit of international trade. The very word גמל (gamal), meaning camel, comes from a verb that means to invest. ... continue reading → • The olive tree in the Bible is the tree of the anointi...
If you read commentaries on this passage, there are a number of questions which are not clearly answered. There are questions about the applicability of this passage, of the intent of Jesus, of the meaning of His response. Whatever your interpretation of this passage, there are a few broad-...
The second question, which has even deeper meaning and future impact on our nation, is what is the significance of the bullet striking and drawing blood from president Trump’s right ear? For answers to these questions, and many more, we need to turn to God in prayer and turn to His Wo...
Hedonism is an evil moral ethic. “Without hedonism, there would be no point or meaning to our moral decisions” (Joe Barnhart inThe Warren-Barnhart Debate on Christian Ethics versus Utilitarian Ethics, November 5, 1980, Denton, Texas). ...
The main focus of this article consists of unraveling the meaning of globalisation in terms of its purpose, and determining why many Africans appear to view its goals skeptically. The study is done from a Christian theological perspective, thus the conformity of globalisation to Biblical worldview ...
something upright (from עָמִד, to stand), a column (the usual word for "pillar," and invariably so rendered in the A. V., but meaning an elevated stand or platform in 2Ki 11:14; 2Ki 23:3); מַסעָד, mis'dd, a support (from סָעִד, ...