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I found two corroborations on the word "gospel" yesterday
Grateful:
A few months ago, I felt the desire to undertake a massive Bible study at home, reading my New Scofield Reference AKJV Bible simultaneously with Rotherham's Emphasized Bible, starting from Genesis 1:1 and going straight through toward Revelation (I'm only in Isaiah 40 now) comparing them verse-by-verse, AND plodding through the legwork of actually looking up most of the cross-references. When I DID do that, I almost ALWAYS made beautiful discoveries and was SOOOOO glad that I made myself do it!!! :D (I wonder just how much of that activity was GOD-driven!!! haha! ) Yesterday morning I made the happy discovery in Isaiah 40:9 in Scofield, in the footnote. The footnote read as follows : "In the Septuagint the clause 'that bringest good tidings,' is expressed by euaggelizo , which in the New Testament is the verb often used for declaring good tidings, or preaching the Gospel. Our words 'evangelize' and 'evangelism' are derived from this Greek verb.
I went to my Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, College Edition (1960), and looked up "gospel". Here's what I found : gospel [ ME (Middle English) godspell, gospel (with assimilated -d- ) ; AS (Anglo-Saxon) godspel . originally good spell, good story, good news ; intended as translation of Greek euangelion , good tidings, but later by shortening of o , it became godspel as if <god , God + spel , story, history ] 1. the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles
When I put these two paragraphs together, it makes me think: Jesus came to bring our Father's GOOD NEWS of His beautiful Self and His Righteous ways unto His childrens' awareness, and make us desire strongly to be just like Him in character and behavior.
I love studying languages and finding the oft-hidden meanings & origins or words. For example I was delighted years ago to discover that the word "goodbye" is a contraction of "God be with ye" ! And the Hawaiian word "aloha" means "Hello" and "Goodbye"..... I like to KNOW what I am SAYING when I speak! :D
Does anyone else among you have any other word discoveries that you can share with us all?
Ciao for now! :)
Linda
jER:
..."goodbye" is a contraction of "God be with ye" !
Then, is "hello" a contraction of hell?
This is interesting, because the grave (hell) comes before, as in hello!
Whereas – "goodbye" is to leave this life, ultimately to be with God.
Just thinking out loud… ;)
-jER
Grateful:
Hi jER!
You CAUGHT that, didn't you?! ;)
You know, you got me to thinking about what the derivation of the word "hello" is just now, so I went to Google, and entered : Hello -- word origin
Got the website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello and found :
--- Quote ---Etymology
There are many different theories to the origins of the word. It might be a contraction of archaic English "whole be thou". [6] Another source has been suggested to be the phrase "Hail, Thou", as used in some translations of the Bible (see Luke 1:28 and Matthew 27:14 for examples).
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A long time ago I looked up the word "holy" in my dictionary, and discovered that the origin of that word is : "hale, whole, sound, hearty."
Another surprising discovery I found on Wikipedia
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--- Quote --- Ciao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia South America
The word ciao is colloquial (pronounced "chow" ) is an informal Italian verbal salutation or greeting, meaning either "goodbye" or "hello". ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciao
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And here I am, half Sicilian-Italian, and didn't even know that the Italian word "ciao" meant 'Hello" as well as "Goodbye", just like in the Hawaiian language!!! My brain just grew a new neuron tonight!! haHA! :D ;)
It has surprised me more than once to find out just how sacred our everyday language IS, often. Just now I Googled : Sacred - word origin and got this website : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred An excerpt from this website is :
--- Quote ---The distinction of the word holy appeared around the 13th Century with the Old English word hālig derived from hāl meaning health, happiness and wholeness. As “wholeness”, holiness may be taken to indicate a state of religious completeness or perfection.
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Oh, our language is SO RICH and FULL with MEANING !!!
I wonder just exactly WHICH "WORD" is meant in John1:1, when the verse says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." ? That verse has intrigued me for quite some time. Any ideas, anyone?
Always on the search for words and Bible passages that enrich our lives!!
Linda
Kat:
Hi Linda,
I found this in the Mobile conference transcript.
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,3720.0.html -----------
In Gene. 1:1 it says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
But that’s not the way that word (beginning) is translated in most places in the Bible. Let’s step back a second, lets decide who created the heaven and the earth, ok.
In John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
A guy argued with me for 3 months, back and forth, telling me that was the Father, “In the beginning was the Word.” The right order of the words in the linear is, ‘and God was the word.’ “and the Word was WITH God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning WITH God.” Now it’s pretty hard for something that is something, to be with itself, see what I’m saying, that don’t quite work grammatically, does it.
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I thought it might add a little to what you are discussing :)
mercy, peace and love
Kat
indianabob:
Ciao Linda,
Interesting thread you have presented. I will pursue this idea in my personal study.
I am from a German, Danish, Scott-Irish background, but my eldest daughter Karen, married a fellow from New Jersey named Salvatore LaDuca. He immigrated from Sicily at age 10 in 1954. They are presently on vacation in the old country to attend a family wedding. When they return, we may have more to share.
Blessings, indianabob
"And here I am, half Sicilian-Italian, and didn't even know that the Italian word "ciao" meant 'Hello" as well as "Goodbye", just like in the Hawaiian language!!! My brain just grew a new neuron tonight!! haHA! :D ;)
Linda
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