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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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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.
In Scripture it is mostly an outsider’s word for Israel — and it may come from a root meaning “to pass over.”
Oct 27, 2026
Behind the English word “God” stand Elohim, El and theos — and, set apart from them, the personal name the Bible renders “the LORD.”
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
The word Jesus used for final judgment was a real valley outside Jerusalem — its history, and how the church has read it
Sep 20, 2026
The Greek word the New Testament uses for the realm of the dead — the counterpart to Sheol, and not the final hell
