Shortcast on Capernaum and the Day of Miracles (week of March 6, third to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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In this shortcast Kerry talks about how to pronounce "Capernaum", its size, what it was like there, the place it played in Jesus's ministry, and its political position. He then goes through Matthew 9 and helps us picture one of the most amazing days ever recorded. He speaks of that perhaps being a typical day when the Savior was in Capernaum.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Scripture of a Real podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scripture that have become real to us |
| 0:16.1 | because we believe that helps us draw more power out of them and we certainly need all of that power. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and this is a shortcast on the topic of Copernum and the stories |
| 0:27.8 | that are in Matthew Chapter 9. And we're going to get into a couple of elements of those stories |
| 0:32.4 | and elements about Copernum that I think are just really important and wonderful to talk about. |
| 0:39.1 | Okay, so let's just do some nuts and bolts about the city. |
| 0:42.7 | First of all, its name is in Hebrew or Aramaic Kephyr Nehum, which literally means the village |
| 0:48.9 | of Nehom. |
| 0:51.4 | In Greek, which is how we get it it in the new testament it's in greek it says |
| 0:59.6 | kaffar naum which is probably as close as they can do to kepernehum there's no h in in greek so kaffar naum |
| 1:08.6 | you'll hear it pronounced today in english and i mean we never, we're not really saying it with the Hebrew pronunciation, which would be the most correct pronunciation, right? Kaffir Nehum. And so it's just up to us to anglicize it as best we can. So you'll hear it done two different ways. Copernum or Copernium. |
| 1:34.8 | In Wikipedia, it says to pronounce it to Copernium, I'll just tell you, I fully, if that's how you pronounce it, or if that's how others pronounce it, that's great with me. |
| 1:35.9 | I have no problem with that. |
| 1:43.9 | It doesn't really make a lot of sense to me because that's not based on the Greek or the Aramaic or the Hebrew, they would not say Nium. They would say |
| 1:46.4 | Nehum or Naum. And so we're clearly anglicizing it and it's spelled C-A-P-E-R-N-A-U-M. |
| 1:57.7 | And I'm not aware of any other word in English where we would take an a u and go ne um right |
| 2:03.7 | go an e a that that that's not how we do it in english so i mean for anglicizing it the way it's |
| 2:10.1 | written and we are trying to anglicize it the way it's written if we're not saying kepernayhum |
| 2:13.2 | uh then uh it should be kapernaum or kepern kapernaum i don't know why it would i just don't get the how the |
| 2:23.0 | tradition of neum started and this is just me as a linguist kind of geeking out but i don't know |
| 2:27.3 | how the tradition of saying neum starts it makes no sense to me but it's very common so why not i'm good |
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