Advice Number 9 How To Study The Bible
Greetings to you my friend, I’ll help you to understand how to study the Bible. We have to use dictionaries. Notice that the word is in the plural form, “dictionaries”.
One indispensable tool is the everyday dictionary, such as the Encarta online dictionary. Normal dictionaries are acceptable and useful. We will have to give to them a workout. However to really know the meaning of a term, we must put our nose in an etymology dictionary.
“Etymology” means knowing the beginning of a word’s meaning. Some words are made up of several smaller words, known as “root words”. The etymology tells, to us, the sense of each of the root words. Some etymologies may need to be redone, when more understanding arrives.
For example, the Online Etymology Dictionary, at etymonline.com, has normally great etymologies. Yet, for the word, “abraxas” I saw that Wikipedia had a better etymology, than has the Online Etymology Dictionary. At times other references are better.
As you learn how to study the Bible, know that there is another factor. In the period when the King James Bible was authorized, numerous English words were defined differently from how we use them today. One of my Bible editions contains a list of those words, and what they originally meant in the holy Bible. I have scanned the list and put it up on the Biblefixit Dot Com’s website at Biblefixit.com/old-english-words.htm.
What is hard is to go through the list and to find what words we will need to rethink, as we get into the holy Bible. With such a large list, what are we to do? Search out every word in a chapter, to see if it has a different definition, from the sense which we already know? Or ought we to only hasten through the list, every once in a while, hoping that we’ll be able to call to mind some word, which we saw in our studying?
Preferably, a holy Bible would be, in future, printed, which would have the old meanings displayed, or footnoted, on the page where the words are to be found in their context.
Another sort of dictionary you will find in the concordance. I use Stong’s Concordance on line to learn the definition of Greek and Hebrew words in the scripture, whereafter I inscribe them in the margins of my holy Bible. Yet, I believe that in many examples, God’s intent might be a little bit different from the Hebrew meanings shown in the concordance.
Le’ts look at an example. A high number of Hebrew names terminate in “ia” or “iah”. “Jeremiah” and “Isaiah” are two, of them. Also there is the name of God, “Iahveh”. It is also the German word for “yes”, which is “ja”. The letters “y”, “i”, and “j”, can often be observed to be able to be substituted, for each other. German speech may be a derivation of old Hebrew. Thus the American “yeah” (which is stemming from “ja”) can also be recognized to be a name of God.
How about we return to the key idea — the extremely quaint word “ja” deals with breathing. As one of the few, only somewhere near a milliard, living, who have accepted the gift of the “baptism of fire and the holy spirit” referred to by the Lord, I can tell you authoritatively, that “Iahveh” is definitely connected with the thought of “breath”, in a manner that cannot and will not be explained to them, who are unbaptized in the fire and the holy spirit.
Notwithstanding the importance of the old meaning of the word, in the concordances and etymologies, the thought of breath is excluded from the meanings of the names and terms that have “ia”, “jah”, or “iah” in them, and names and terms for “God” have been given instead. This is for the reason, that the wisdom of the breath is an arcane subject, and is usually not put into books.
The bottom line is, we need to increase our faith in God, to lead us to the correct understanding of his meanings, and this we do by studying the King James Bible often, and doing what God has put forth for us.
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