This is John from the Bible Project. This week on the podcast we're going to do something new.

As you know, the Bible was not written in English. It was written in Hebrew, Greek, and a tiny bit of air-mac.

Our translations are pretty good, but even so, sometimes the English words that we use don't carry the full weight and nuance of the original words.

Now, there's so many words that we use that occur in our translations of the Bible, but they don't mean what those words mean in their biblical context.

And that's the problem as we read. We read in modern meetings into these ancient words.

We're going to try to step inside the imagination of the ancient writers as they use these words to describe the world that they lived in and the experiences they had.

Here we go.

So we're going to have a conversation today to prototype a brand new type of video series that we're calling word studies.

We're going to take biblical words that were in Hebrew or Greek or Greek or in air-mac.

A little bit of the Hebrew Bible is air-mac.

But the word in its original language and we'll discuss that word. And this will be kind of a Bible dictionary kind of series.

Like a video Bible dictionary word studies.

Yeah, and there'll be these short little two-minute videos.

Biblical vocabulary has this paradoxical life, I think, in Western culture where biblical vocabulary has so shaped the English language over the last 400 years through the King James translation.

But some words have passed into English and they've become so bland that we don't even know what their original meaning would be in the Bible in Greek or Hebrew.

Like righteousness or glory or grace or love.

Right.

The English word that we use isn't the Hebrew word, but it's this old English.

Yeah, it might even be influenced by the biblical translations from a long time ago.

But now there's so many words that we use that occur in our translations of the Bible, but they don't mean now what those words mean in their biblical context.

And that's the problem as we read.

We read in modern meetings into these ancient words when we read them in the Bible.

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