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A solemn bond setting the terms between God and his people — strung from Noah and Abraham to Sinai and David, and renewed in the ‘new covenant’ Christians read in Christ.
Oct 31, 2026
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David and Bathsheba’s son — Israel’s wisest and wealthiest king, builder of the first Temple, credited with the wisdom books, and undone by his later turn to idolatry.
The four letters YHWH form the personal name of the God of Israel — reconstructed in sound, left unspoken out of reverence, and rendered ‘the LORD’ in most English Bibles.
Oct 30, 2026
Hebrew ruach and Greek pneuma both begin as ‘wind’ or ‘breath,’ then stretch across the breath of life, the soul, unseen persons — and the Holy Spirit the glossary treats apart.
Oct 29, 2026
It begins as ancestor, elder, originator — then names God’s covenant bond with Israel, and, in Christian tradition, the first person of the Trinity.
From Bethlehem’s shepherd boy to Israel’s greatest king — and the dynasty both Judaism and Christianity trace to him.
Oct 27, 2026
In Scripture it is mostly an outsider’s word for Israel — and it may come from a root meaning “to pass over.”
Behind the English word “God” stand Elohim, El and theos — and, set apart from them, the personal name the Bible renders “the LORD.”
