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English has one overworked word for love. We "love" our spouse, pizza, a movie, and God with the same four letters. Greek was wiser — it had several words for different kinds of love. And the one the New Testament reaches for most is the rarest and most radical.The agape...
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For a lot of people, "repentance" is a heavy, gloomy word — images of guilt, groveling, and feeling bad about yourself. But the Greek word behind it points to something far more hopeful: not wallowing in regret, but turning toward a new life.The metanoia meaning recovers what "repentance" actually is....
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It was the next-to-last thing Jesus said from the cross, and in English it sounds almost like defeat — a dying man announcing the end. But the single Greek word behind it announced the opposite: not "I am finished," but "It is accomplished."The tetelestai meaning transforms how we hear Jesus'...
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Every English Bible is a translation, and every translation, no matter how good, loses a little something. Behind the familiar words are Hebrew and Greek originals that often carry more depth, color, and force than any single English word can hold.This guide collects key Greek and Hebrew words in the...