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Remember:
- He is the only man of whom Yah·weh said: there is no one like him on earth!
- No man has faced such a trial!
- He is the example of faithfulness!
- He lost everything!
- Yah.weh gave him back everything!
- He proved the devil is a liar!
- When we feel depressed, we may find comfort through the pages of his book!
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Remember:
- If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
- They used to write differently!
- They used to speak differently!
- They used to think differently!
- They used to act differently!
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Remember:
Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are
hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.
This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.
Although yom is commonly rendered as
day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:
- Point of time (a specific day)
- time period of a whole or half a day:
- Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
- Sunrise to sunset
- Sunset to next sunset
- General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
- A year "lived a lot of days"
- Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.
Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.
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