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Feature Pages(5+)
- FeatureTheological WordsEight words that carry the Bible's theology — agape, chesed, logos, hilastērion, berith, shalom, emunah, doxa — each a door into its full workbench page.
- FeatureThe words your Bible left in their own languageAmen, hallelujah, hosanna, selah, abba, jot and tittle — the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words every English Bible declined to translate.
- FeatureThe 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.
- FeatureHebrew Roots — the language of the Old TestamentHow the Hebrew alphabet works, why the letters carry numbers, and what makes Hebrew Hebrew — with a dedicated page for every one of the twenty-two letters.
- FeatureGreek 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.
Verses(5+)
People(1)
Words (Strong's)(5+)
- WordH8193 שָׂפָה · sâphâh (Hebrew)the lip (as a natural boundary)
- WordG1024 βραχύς · brachýs (Greek)short (of time, place, quantity, or number)
- WordG4086 πιθανολογία · pithanología (Greek)persuasive language
- WordG5542 χρηστολογία · chrēstología (Greek)fair speech, i.e. plausibility
- WordG3054 λογομαχέω · logomachéō (Greek)to be disputatious (on trifles)
Concepts(3)
- ConceptSeedOne word that carries the whole promise — a line of descent that narrows, verse by verse, to one Person.
- ConceptLightGod's first spoken word and his own self-description — light before the sun, and a Light no darkness can put out.
- ConceptGematriaHebrew and Greek letters double as numbers, so every word carries a value — a feature of the alphabets the text itself uses.
Themes(4)
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- 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…
Topics(1)
Prophecies(2)
Apologetics(2)
- ApologeticsGenesis 1:1 Numerical SignatureThe seven Hebrew words of Genesis 1:1 carry standard letter-values summing to 2701 — which is 37 × 73, a product of mirror primes, and the 73rd triangular number. The verse has…
- ApologeticsEquidistant Letter Sequences (ELS) in the Hebrew TextRead every nth letter of the Hebrew text and words appear: Torah at 50-letter skips through Genesis and Exodus, rabbis paired with their own dates in a peer-reviewed 1994…
Authors(5+)
- AuthorRemigius of RheimsRemigius — Rémi in French — was born about 437 in the region of Laon, in northern Gaul, into a Gallo-Roman family of rank. He was made bishop of Rheims at about twenty-two…
- AuthorGennadius of ConstantinopleGennadius became patriarch of Constantinople in 458 and held the office until his death in 471. He came in at a hard moment: the Council of Chalcedon was only seven years old…
- AuthorJeromeEusebius Hieronymus was born about 347 at Stridon, a town on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia that no longer exists. His parents were Christians with money. They sent him to…
- AuthorPaschasius of DumiumPaschasius was a monk and deacon of the monastery at Dumium, near Braga in Galicia, in northwestern Spain, in the sixth century. He was born about 515 and died around 580. He…
- AuthorSyncletica of AlexandriaSyncletica was born at Alexandria, probably late in the third century, to Macedonian parents who had settled in Egypt and grown rich. She died about 350, in her eighties. Her…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resource2 Esdras 14:28Hear these words, O Israel.
- Study resource2 Esdras 14:6These words shalt thou declare, and these shalt thou hide.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 6:25Receive therefore instruction through my words, and it shall do you good.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 13:7Now as soon as the people heard these words, their spirit revived.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 6:11Wherefore set your affection upon my words; desire them, and ye shall be instructed.
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H8193שָׂפָה sâphâh — the lip (as a natural boundary)G1024βραχύς brachýs — short (of time, place, quantity, or
number)G4086πιθανολογία pithanología — persuasive
languageG5542χρηστολογία chrēstología — fair speech, i.e.
plausibilityG3054λογομαχέω logomachéō — to be disputatious (on
trifles)G4935συντόμως syntómōs — concisely (briefly)