I suppose I wasn't very clear in my original definition. What I was trying to say was that YHWH was sort of a "symbol" for the written page to stand for the name of God, but that the point was that it couldn't really be written - and since it wasn't a real word, then the ...
I have never been observant but, if I understand correctly, the basic definition of a Jew is that your mother is Jewish. That’s certainly true in my case. I have never renounced Judaism, but if it’s automatic that when you profess Christianity you’re no longer a Jew, then I’...
Meaning, definition and translation of a word are not the same: “father, grandfather, ancestor, forefather, begetter” are all possible translations of the Hebrew word /av/, they are not meanings, they are English words which have meaning. Each of the meanings of the English words (and ...
It may be of some help to heuristicallyemploy the abstract noun‘thought’for‘thinking’which refers (to give threeslightly different facets of a definition) tothe arrangement and structure of ideas,orthe mode of approaching the worldincluding a worldview, language, and termsin a certain ...
Let us assume that this has always been so, and remember that the most striking feature of infants for the Romans was the fact that they did not talk, earning themselves the epithet infans. But they don’t like that. Babies try to establish contact in every way possible, and their ...
These ministries taught that while salvation is received solely by having faith in Jesus, that a lifestyle of righteousness can only be achieved through obeying the law. After all, Jesus said he did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. Of course, their definition of “...
repeatedly, as new technologies brought about great wealth for the visionaries who saw the future; and industry giants crumble and fall, all because they fought the inevitable waves of change. I find it interesting now, that IT terminology comes back to the simple, metaphoric definition of a ...
Definition: a prim. word; a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adv., etc.) in a great variety of applications, both lit. and fig., both proximate and remote... But...
Of course, it’s theorisinig, only a study of first references would show the main source. The definition ‘having friends in high places’ has a down-top shade of meaning, but protektsiya, to me, implies a top-down patronage. Bathrobe says November 30, 2010 at 5:29 am borrowings...