Naked Bible 033: Studying the Original Languages of the Bible: Word Study Techniques, Part 2

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 22 January 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Episode 33 continues our series on Bible study at the word level. Last time we talked about word usage as it pertains to usage by a single biblical author within the scope of that author's writings. Our launching point was the lemma behind "unmarried" in 1 Cor 7. The lemma was used only four times in the New Testament, all within that chapter of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. Today we’ll primarily focus on thinking about word usage in relation to other words -- specifically, synonyms and grammatical relationships. Our starting point is the Hebrew word bara', the lemma behind the word "created" in Gen 1:1. Find out what the word does and does not mean in this episode.

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0:00.0	singles day
0:25.0	Welcome back to the Naked Bible Podcast.
0:35.5	Today we're going to continue with our series on Bible study at the Word level.
0:40.6	In the last episode we began talking about Word study techniques.
0:44.7	Specifically, we focused on examining word use by a single author throughout the material
0:51.4	of that author wrote.
0:53.7	We looked at the case of the Apostle Paul's use of Agamato in 1 Corinthians 7, where
1:00.4	only Paul uses that term four times in that chapter, and those are the only four occurrences
1:07.2	in the entire New Testament.
1:09.2	Today, I want to talk about considering words in relationship to other words.
1:15.2	A word study isn't just a matter of seeing how many times a word occurs.
1:20.4	Math isn't part of exegesis.
1:24.4	And then going to a lexicon and seeing which English gloss option you like best in a given
1:29.5	passage.
1:31.4	But that's what most people do.
1:33.9	Word study is about word usage, and that takes thought and careful thought at that based
1:40.1	on careful observation.
1:42.2	If you've listened to me for any length of time, you've probably heard me say that there
1:45.6	is no substitute for thinking when doing Bible study.
1:50.8	And that applies to word study.
1:52.8	It's not about just lookups of word occurrences.
1:55.7	That's just a step for getting the raw material that you need to think about.
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