Hello my friend, I'll assist you to learn how to study the Bible. We ought to use dictionaries. Notice that the word is in the plural form, "dictionaries".

One indispensable tool is your everyday dictionary, even as the Encarta online dictionary. Everyday dictionaries are good. We should give to them a workout. But to actually know the meaning of a term, we must employ an etymology dictionary.

"Etymology" means tracing the beginning of a word's meaning. Some words are composed of several smaller terms, called "root words". The etymology shows, to us, the meanings of each of the root words. Some etymologies may need to be redone, when more facts arrive.

For example, the Online Etymology Dictionary, at etymonline.com, has normally great etymologies. Yet, for the word, "abraxas" I found that Wikipedia had a more accurate etymology, than has the Online Etymology Dictionary. Occasionally other references are superior.

During the time, when you are learning how to study the Bible, realize that there is another factor. In the time when the King James Bible was authorized, sundry English terms meant differently from today's definitions. One of my Bible editions offers a list of those words, and what they originally meant in the Bible. I have copied the list and offered it to you on the Biblefixit Dot Com's web page at Biblefixit.com/old-english-words.htm.

The tough part is to inspect the list and to identify what terms we ought to substitute an old meaning for, while we get into the Bible. With such a great list, what are we to do? Look up every word in a chapter, to see whether it has a different meaning, from the one which we already know? Or ought we to only skim through the list, every once in a while, hoping that we'll remember some term, which we saw in our studying?

Ideally, a holy Bible would be, in future, printed, which would include the early meanings displayed, or footnoted, on the page where the terms are shown in their context.

A different variety of dictionary you will find in the concordance. I use Stong's Concordance on line to get the definition of Hebrew or Greek terms in the Bible, whereupon I write them in the pages of my holy Bible. However, I sense that in many particulars, God's intent might be a wee bit unlike the Hebrew definitions given in the concordance.

I'll give, to you, an example. Many Hebrew names end in "iah" or "ia". "Obadiah" and "Jeremiah" 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 "i", "j", and "y", can often be seen to be able to be substituted, for each other. The German tongue may be developed from of quaint Hebrew. Similarly the slang "yeah" (itself derived from "ja") can also be recognized to be a name of God.

Let's return to the key idea -- the truly old word "ja" deals with the breath. As one of the few, only about a milliard, alive, which have received the "holy spirit and fire baptism" referred to by our Lord, I can tell you authoritatively, that "Yahweh" is definitely connected with the thought of "breathing", in a manner that cannot and won't be revealed to them, who are not baptized in the holy spirit and fire.

Notwithstanding the importance of the old meaning of the word, in the concordances and etymologies, the thought of breath has been excluded from the definitions of the terms and names that have "ia", "iah", or "jah" in them, and words for "God" have been substituted. This is because the wisdom of the breath is a private topic, and is often not put into books.

In the final analysis, we have to grow our faith in the Heavenly Father, to lead us to the true comprehension of his meanings, and this we do by reading the authorized King James scripture frequently, and doing what the Heavenly Father has recommended for us.

Before you visit the website below, please be so kind as to share your comment. We wish to listen to your ideas, and the way, that you feel. A thousand thanks to you.