The Greek word translated as “baptize” is the verbbaptizo. Most contemporary lexicons say the primary meaning is “to dip, plunge, immerse.” The secondary meaning is to “bring under the influence.”Dr. Merrill Tenneynotes that “after making allowances for certain occasional exceptions, suc...
Cycle of indiction, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors.Cycle of the moon, orMetonic cycle, a period of 19 years...
The cheesesteak has iconic status in Philly. She's worn some of the most iconic gowns ever to grace the red carpet. Eastern Church.of or relating to a representation of some sacred personage or event, such as Christ or a saint or the Resurrection, painted usually on a wood surface and...
Liddell and Scott (A Greek English Lexicon) list three more meanings of our word ioulos. It may also mean corn-sheaf, and we're guessing that's because of the bristly appearance of a harvest-ready corn sheaf. The goddess-of-the-harvest Demeter was sometimes called Ιουλω, after th...
bad, of a bad nature or condition in a physical sense: diseased or blind in an ethical sense: evil wicked, bad The word is used in the nominative case in Mt. 6:13. This usuallydenotes a title in the Greek. Hence Christ is saying, deliver usfrom "The Evil", and is probably referri...
In John, denotes the essential Word of God, Jesus Christ, the personal wisdom and power in union with God, his minister in creation and government of the universe, the cause of all the world's life both physical and ethical, which for the procurement of man's salvation put on human natu...
(A Greek-English Lexicon) equates it withεναλλασσω(enallasso), to change or exchange (even to cross). This particular word is not used in the Bible, but it is a common member of the widely attested verbal family of the wordαλλος(allos), meaning "other" or "...
Encouraging Bible studies with video that look at the New Testament as if Greek was our native language, tracing alternate meanings and usage, revealing truths lost in translation, by the author of InHisVerse Bible Software.
Also from the verb θυω (thuo) comes the adjective θυιας (thuias) or θυας (thuas), meaning frantic or "mad for love" (in the words of Liddel & Scott's A Greek-English Lexicon). This same word but as noun describes an "inspired, possessed woman, especially a Baccha...
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Angel Angel[E] Superhuman or heavenly being who serves as God's messenger. Both the Hebrewmalak[J; 'm] and the Greekangelos[a [ggelo"] indicate that these beings also act decisively in fulfilling God's will in the world. But these tw...