How To Study The Bible Counsel Number Nine

Oct 20
09:04

2011

Timmy Goodenough

Timmy Goodenough

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Greetings to you my friend, I'll help you to understand how to study the Bible. We have to use dictionaries. Notice that the word is in the plural form, "dictionaries".

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Hail to you my friend,How To Study The Bible Counsel Number Nine Articles I'll help you to acquire the skills, of how to study the Bible. We must use dictionaries. Notice that the term is in the plural form, "dictionaries".

There is an ordinary dictionary, even as the Encarta online dictionary. Regular dictionaries are acceptable and useful. We will have to give to them a workout. But to actually understand a term, we must put our nose in an etymology dictionary.

"Etymology" denotes tracing the beginning of a term's meaning. Some words are put together from several smaller terms, known as "root words". The etymology tells, to us, the sense of each of the root words. Some etymologies may need to be modified, when greater understanding arrives.

For example, the Online Etymology Dictionary, at etymonline.com, has wonderful etymologies ordinarily. However, for the word, "abraxas" I discovered that Wikipedia had a better etymology, than has the Online Etymology Dictionary. Occasionally other references are better.

As you learn how to study the Bible, realize that another factor is to be considered. During the period when the King James Bible was authorized, many English terms were defined differently from what they mean today. One of my Bible editions contains a list of those words, and what they mean in the holy writ. I have scanned the list and presented it for your use on the Biblefixit Dot Com's website at Biblefixit.com/old-english-words.htm.

Hard it is to check the list and to identify what terms we have to reconsider, as we learn from the Bible. With such a big list, what are we to do? Search out every word in a chapter, to see whether it has a different sense, from the one that we already know? Or should we merely skim through the list, now and again, in hopes that we'll remember some term, that we saw in our studying?

Ideally, a holy writ would be, in future, published, which would include the old meanings displayed, or footnoted, on the page where the words are shown in their context.

Another variety of dictionary you will find in the concordance. I use Stong's Concordance on the internet to learn the definition of Hebrew or Greek words in the holy book, whereafter I inscribe them in the margins of my holy Bible. However, I believe that in many particulars, Elohiym's intention might be a little bit unlike the Hebrew definitions offered in the concordance.

Le'ts look at an example. A high number of Hebrew names terminate in "ia" or "iah". "Isaiah" and "Obadiah" are two, thereof. Also there is the name of God, "Iahveh". It is too the German word for "yes", which is "ja". The letters "y", "j", and "i", can often be seen to be interchangeable. German speech may be developed from of ancient Hebrew. Thus the slang "yeah" (which is stemming from "ja") can also be recognized to be a name of God.

But to get back to the key idea -- the ancient word "ja" has to do with the breath. As one of the few, merely around a milliard, alive, that have accepted the gift of the "holy spirit and fire baptism" mentioned by Jesus, I can say with authority, that "YHVH" is assuredly connected with the idea of "breathing", in a way that cannot and won't be revealed to those, who are unbaptized in the fire and the holy spirit.

However, in the concordances and etymologies, the thought of breath has been left out of the meanings of the terms and names that have "jah", "ia", or "iah" therein, and terms and names for "God" have been substituted. This is for the reason, that the secret of the breath is an arcane matter, and is regularly not put into books.

When all is said and done, we need to increase our faith in Christ, to direct us to the correct understanding of his meanings, and this we do by going into the authorized King James scripture often, and carrying out what Christ has put forth for us.

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