Bible word meanings
Selah, shalom, hallelujah, Jehovah Jireh, agape, maranatha: what the Hebrew and Greek words the Bible kept actually mean — words many people sing and pray without knowing their sense — and the hard words of the King James, like longsuffering and concupiscence. Every answer comes from the text, from Strong’s lexicon and from the verses where the word appears.
The names of God
Words of praise and prayer
Old Testament words
New Testament words
King James words explained
- Iniquitysin that twists, and the guilt it leaves
- Gentlenesskindness in the way one treats others
- Longsufferingpatience that bears without retaliating
- GraceGod's favor that no one deserves
- Lasciviousnesssensuality with no restraint or shame
- Concupiscencedesire that craves what God has not given
- Strifequarrels and rivalry that divide
- Covetousnessgreed, the craving for more
- Reproachpublic disgrace, shame laid on someone
- Redemptionfreedom bought at a price
- Godlinessdevotion to God that shows in how one lives
- Burnt offeringthe offering burned whole on the altar
- Sodomitethe word that came from Sodom
- Hereticone who divides the church by a choice of his own
- Exhortto call alongside: to plead, urge and comfort
- Equityjustice with the same measure for everyone
- Would to Goda wish: “if only”
- Stiff-neckedhard of neck: refusing to be led