glōssa — Dictionary
…a LANGUAGE. All three senses are live in Acts 2 and the chapter turns on the fact that Greek uses…
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talitha koum — Dictionary
…GIRL, GET UP — Aramaic, the language Jesus actually spoke, transliterated directly into the Greek text and then translated for the…
Job — Introduction
…Ἰώβ (Iob) — ⚠ The Greek Septuagint of Job is about ONE-SIXTH SHORTER than the Hebrew — some four hundred lines missing…
barbaros — Dictionary
…To a Greek ear a foreign language sounded like 'bar-bar-bar', so a barbaros is simply somebody whose speech…
Philadelphia (Asia Minor) — Encyclopedia
…fertile it was called 'burnt land,' founded to spread Greek language and culture eastward — hence its name, 'brotherly love.' Devastated…
Romans 16
…The Greek word does not by itself name an office. The English “deacon” in the NIV puts a later title…
Song of Solomon — Introduction
…a Persian loanword (pardes, 'park, orchard,' 4:13), possibly a Greek one (appiryon, 3:9), and features some read as…
Philadelphia (Asia Minor) — Atlas
…fertile it was called 'burnt land,' founded to spread Greek language and culture eastward — hence its name, 'brotherly love.' Devastated…
Hellēnistēs — Dictionary
…The Greek never says which language or which culture is meant; the usual reading takes the Hellenists as Jews whose…
Lykaonisti — Dictionary
…language, and does not say whether Paul and Barnabas understood it before they acted at v14, where the Greek says…
