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- Greek, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Greek Empire Divided Four Ways, a messianic prophecy.The Greek Empire would be divided into four kingdoms after the great king's death.
- Greek Roots: the language of the New Testament, a featured study.How the Greek alphabet was borrowed from Phoenician, why the letters carry numbers, and what makes Koine Koine: with a dedicated page for every one of the twenty-four letters.
- Greek numbers, and the number of the beast, a featured study.How Greek counted with its letters, the three lost letters that kept their values, and an honest account of 666: the manuscripts, the 616 variant, Irenaeus, and the Nero argument graded.
Featured studies
37 results- StudyHow Greek Works, MannaFestA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyGreek Roots: the language of the New TestamentHow the Greek alphabet was borrowed from Phoenician, why the letters carry numbers, and what makes Koine Koine: with a dedicated page for every one of the twenty-four letters.
- StudyThe Greek words behind the New TestamentAgape, logos, charis, koinonia, parousia, ekklesia: what the New Testament's keywords meant in ordinary Greek first, plus the fish, the chi-rho and the sacred names, dated from the sources.
- StudyGreek numbers, and the number of the beastHow Greek counted with its letters, the three lost letters that kept their values, and an honest account of 666: the manuscripts, the 616 variant, Irenaeus, and the Nero argument graded.
- StudyAlpha (Αα): the Greek letterThe first letter, borrowed from an ox, and the letter that gave Europe its vowels.
Verses
31 results- Verse1 Corinthians 1:22Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom,
- VerseRomans 1:14I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.
- VerseActs 17:12As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.
- VerseJohn 12:20Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.
- VerseGalatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
People
2 results- PersonTimothyThe young disciple from Lystra, son of a believing Jewish mother and a Greek father, who joined Paul on the second journey and became the recipient of two of his last letters.
- PersonTitusPaul's true child after the common faith (Titus 1:4) — the uncircumcised Greek test-case of Galatians 2:3, the trusted envoy whose report from Corinth comforted Paul (2 Cor…
Places
1 resultManuscripts
9 results- ManuscriptThe Greek Minor Prophets Scroll (8ḤevXII gr)A Greek Old Testament from the Judaean desert that somebody had already gone through and corrected against the Hebrew — and that leaves the name of God in the old letters.
- ManuscriptSeptuagintThe Greek Old Testament, translated in the third century BC and after. It is a family of copies, and the site holds the chief ones.
- ManuscriptCodex AlexandrinusA fifth-century Greek Bible in four volumes — with two letters of Clement bound in at the end, and a lost book still listed in its own index.
- ManuscriptCodex ClaromontanusPaul's letters with Greek and Latin side by side — and a list, tucked between two books, of which writings its owner counted as Scripture.
- ManuscriptCodex SinaiticusA 4th-century Greek manuscript of the Christian Bible, one of the two earliest substantially complete witnesses to the Septuagint and New Testament.
Words (Strong's)
13 results- WordG1672 Ἕλλην · Héllēn (Greek)a Hellen (Grecian) or inhabitant of Hellas. The Greek word stands 25 times in the original text.
- WordG1673 Ἑλληνικός · Hellēnikós (Greek)Hellenic, i.e. Grecian (in language). The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordG1674 Ἑλληνίς · Hellēnís (Greek)a Grecian (i.e. non-Jewish) woman. The Greek word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordG1676 Ἑλληνιστί · Hellēnistí (Greek)Hellenistically, i.e. in the Grecian language. The Greek word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordG1675 Ἑλληνιστής · Hellēnistḗs (Greek)a Hellenist or Greek-speaking Jew. The Greek word stands 3 times in the original text.
Concepts
1 resultThemes
4 results- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeGraceGrace is God's unearned favor. The Hebrew word for it is *chen* — a gift given because the giver is gracious, not because the receiver has earned it — and it is *chen* that the…
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- ThemeCovenantIn Scripture a covenant is not a vague feeling. It is a formal, oath-bound promise between named parties, with a stated promise and usually a visible sign to mark it. (The…
Topics
1 resultProphecies
2 resultsApologetics
5 results- ApologeticsThe Nazareth InscriptionA Greek imperial edict against disturbing tombs, obtained from Nazareth in 1878 and dated to the early imperial period. Recent isotopic work complicates the once-confident…
- ApologeticsReliability of the New Testament ManuscriptsThe Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster registers just under 6,000 Greek New Testament manuscripts — roughly 140 papyri, 320 majuscules, 2,900 minuscules…
- ApologeticsP52 (Rylands Papyrus P457, ~125 AD)Rylands Greek Papyrus 457 — a credit-card-sized scrap of a papyrus codex carrying John 18:31–33 on one side and 18:37–38 on the other — is the oldest identified copy of any New…
- ApologeticsThe Septuagint and New Testament QuotationsRoughly two-thirds of the New Testament's some 300 Old Testament quotations follow the Greek Septuagint rather than the Hebrew that became the Masoretic Text. The Dead Sea…
- ApologeticsThe Fall of Nineveh: Nahum Against the Babylonian ChronicleNahum 1-3 foretells an overwhelming flood, fire, plunder, and erasure of Nineveh. The Babylonian Chronicle (BM 21901) and Greek histories trace the 612 BCE fall.
Voices
7 results- VoiceOecumeniusOecumenius wrote the earliest Greek commentary on the book of Revelation that has come down to us. He wrote it in the first half of the sixth century, most likely in the 530s…
- VoiceAdamantiusAdamantius is a name attached to a book rather than a life. The book is a Greek dialogue called *On the True Faith in God* — in Latin, *De recta in Deum fide* — and it was…
- VoiceAbba PoemenPoemen is the Greek word for shepherd, and the name stuck to him. He was born in Egypt late in the fourth century, one of seven brothers who all left the world together for the…
- VoiceEpiphanius ScholasticusEpiphanius was a Greek-speaking scholar who worked at Vivarium, the monastery Cassiodorus founded on his family estate in Calabria after retiring from a long career in the…
- VoiceClement of AlexandriaTitus Flavius Clemens was born around 150, probably at Athens, to pagan parents, and raised in the full Greek education — Homer, the tragedians, Plato, the mystery religions…
Apocrypha (study resources)
5 results- Study resource2 Maccabees 4:13Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly wretch, and no high priest;
- Study resource2 Maccabees 4:10Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten into his hand the rule he forthwith brought his own nation to Greekish fashion.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 4:36And when the king was come again from the places about Cilicia, the Jews that were in the city, and certain of the Greeks that abhorred the fact also, complained because Onias…
- Study resource1 Maccabees 1:10And there came out of them a wicked root Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been an hostage at Rome, and he reigned in the hundred and thirty and…
- Study resource1 Enoch 89:48And that second ram arose and led the [little] sheep. And that ram begat many sheep and fell asleep; and a little sheep became ram in its stead, and became prince and leader of…
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G1672Ἕλλην Héllēn — a Hellen (Grecian) or inhabitant of HellasG1673Ἑλληνικός Hellēnikós — Hellenic, i.e. Grecian (in language)G1674Ἑλληνίς Hellēnís — a Grecian (i.e. non-Jewish) womanG1676Ἑλληνιστί Hellēnistí — Hellenistically, i.e. in the Grecian
languageG1675Ἑλληνιστής Hellēnistḗs — a Hellenist or Greek-speaking
JewH3120יָוָן Yâvân — Javan, the name of a son of Joktan, and of the race (Ionians, i.e. Greeks) descended from him, with their territory