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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
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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.
Behind the English word “God” stand Elohim, El and theos — and, set apart from them, the personal name the Bible renders “the LORD.”
Oct 27, 2026
In the Hebrew Bible “the LORD” is the sacred name YHWH; in the New Testament the same word becomes the confession “Jesus is Lord.”
Oct 21, 2026
From the kings of Canaan to the Davidic throne and the kingdom of God.
Oct 19, 2026
The Greek for “Messiah” — the title Israel waited for, which the New Testament confesses is fulfilled in Jesus.
Oct 18, 2026
