Saturday, May 3, 2008

Bible study tool

This is one of my favorite study tools of all time. If you are reading a certain passage of the Bible, click "Hebrew" for the Old Testament or "Greek" for the New Testament. Type in the English word you want to know more about, and usually a few different Hebrew/Greek words will come up. http://www.studylight.org/lex/

Example: Romans 1.5: "Through Him and for His name's sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith." Click Greek: Type in "grace": Open new pages for the 2 words that come up: eu)preƑpeia and xa/riv. For xa/riv, it is defined as:

1. grace
a. that which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness: grace of speech
2. good will, loving-kindness, favour
a. of the merciful kindness by which God, exerting his holy influence upon souls, turns them to
Christ, keeps, strengthens, increases them in Christian faith, knowledge, affection, and kindles
them to the exercise of the Christian virtues
3. what is due to grace
a. the spiritual condition of one governed by the power of divine grace
b. the token or proof of grace, benefit, a gift of grace, benefit, bounty
4. thanks, (for benefits, services, favours), recompense, reward

Then it will show you every verse where this Greek word is used (click on book name). You can explore this tool forever!! :)

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