Counsel Nine How To Study The Bible

Greetings to you my friend, I'll help you to acquire the skills, of how to study the Bible. We need to use dictionaries. Take heed that the term is in the plural form, "dictionaries".

There is your everyday dictionary, such as the Encarta online dictionary. Common dictionaries are acceptable and useful. We will have to put them to use. But to truly understand a term, we must get into an etymology dictionary.

"Etymology" denotes tracing the beginning of a term's definition. Some words are put together from several smaller words, known as "root words". The etymology explains, to us, the meanings of each of the root words. Some etymologies may have to be rewritten, when newly discovered knowledge comes up.

For instance, the Online Etymology Dictionary, at etymonline.com, has normally great etymologies. Yet, for the word, "abraxas" I saw that Wikipedia had a more accurate etymology, than has the Online Etymology Dictionary. For some words other sources are better.

As you discover how to study the Bible, be aware that there is another factor. In the time when the King James Bible was authorized, numerous English terms meant differently from how we use them today. One of my Bible editions has a list of those terms, and what they originally meant in the holy Bible. I have scanned the list and offered it to you on the Biblefixit Dot Com's web's site at Biblefixit.com/old-english-words.htm.

Hard it is to go through the list and to find what terms we must reconsider, while we study the holy writ. With such a big list, what are we to do? Search out every term in a chapter, to see whether it has an unlike sense, from the one which we already know? Or ought we to merely skim through the list, every once in a while, in hopes that we will be able to call to mind some term, which we have read in our studying?

Preferably, a holy writ would be, hereafter, printed, that would include these early meanings displayed, or footnoted, on the same page where the terms are to be found in their context.

Another variety of dictionary is known as the concordance. I use Stong's Concordance online to find out the meaning of Hebrew or Greek words in the holy book, after which I jot them in the spaces of my holy scripture. Nevertheless, I trust that in many instances, God's intent may be a wee bit different from the Hebrew definitions offered in the concordance.

Here is, for you, an example. A high number of Hebrew names end in "ia" or "iah". "Obadiah" and "Jeremiah" are 2, of them. 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 frequently be seen to be able to be substituted, for each other. German speech may be developed from of quaint Hebrew. Similarly the slang "yeah" (which is stemming from "ja") can also be considered to be a name of God.

But to return to the point -- the ancient word "ja" has to do with breathing. As one of the few, only about a milliard, alive, that have been given the "holy spirit and fire baptism" mentioned by our Lord, I can say authoritatively, that "Iahveh" is assuredly linked with the notion of "breath", in a manner that cannot and will not be explained to them, who are not baptized in the holy spirit and fire.

Nevertheless, in the concordances and etymologies, the thought of breath is lacking in the explanations of the names and terms that have "iah", "ia", or "jah" therein, and terms and names for "God" have been used to replace them. It has been done because the knowledge of the breath is an occulted topic, and is regularly kept out of literature.

When all is said and done, we need to develop our faith in God, to direct us to the true comprehension of his meanings, and this we do by going into the King James Bible oft, and doing what Elohiym has commanded.

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