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A Word for Today: Word (Gk. Logos)

In this new feature we will look at a number of selected Greek/Hebrew words found in the Bible. We will trace their historical development and then describe their meaning and usage ...

Brian Clatworthy

2009 Volume 64 Issue 4

Exposition

A Word for Today: Loving Kindness (Heb. Hesed)

‘Here is love vast as the ocean, Loving kindness as the flood, When the Prince of Life, our ransom Shed for us His precio ...

Brian Clatworthy

2010 Volume 65 Issue 1

Exposition

A Word for Today: Coming (Gk. Parousia)

The Greek noun parousia, meaning presence or coming, is often misunderstood by Bible students. One of the recognized dangers of studying a word by it ...

Brian Clatworthy

2010 Volume 65 Issue 2

Devotional

A Word for Today: Be Just, Righteous (Heb. Sedek)

The Semitic word-group known as the ts-d-q family from which the Hebrew word sedek arises, generally relates to individual behaviour (right conduct) or some form ...

Brian Clatworthy

2010 Volume 65 Issue 3

Exposition

A Word for Today: Hope (Gk. Elpis)

The writer SAMUEL JOHNSON once said that no place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Johnson, however, failed to appreciate that ...

Brian Clatworthy

2010 Volume 65 Issue 4

Exposition

A Word for Today: Hear, Obedience (Heb. Shema)

One of the remarkable features of the Bible is the way in which God uses simple words to convey the most profound truth. This point is effectively demonstrated by the single Hebrew ...

Brian Clatworthy

2011 Volume 66 Issue 1

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A Word for Today: Price of Release, Ransom (Gk. Lutron)

In his famous paraphrase of Psalm 103 (‘Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven’), Henry Lyte compresses verses 3 and 4 of the psalm to simply read, ‘ransomed, healed, restored, ...

Brian Clatworthy

2011 Volume 66 Issue 2

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A Word for Today: Step, Walk (Heb. Hálak)

In the twenty-first century, private and public transport makes a significant contribution to our modern way of life. It is often therefore difficult for us to appreciate that prev ...

Brian Clatworthy

2011 Volume 66 Issue 3

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A Word for Today: Covenant (Gk. Diatheke)

The terms ‘covenant’ or ‘deed of covenant’ are rarely used today in general conversation other than in formal legal contexts. But the practical use of prescribed ‘deeds o ...

Brian Clatworthy

2011 Volume 66 Issue 4

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A Word for Today: Firstfruits (Heb. Bikkûr)

Unsurprisingly, with an agrarian economy that formed the major part of Israel’s day to day existence in the Promised Land, the term ‘firstfruits’ was employed by God as a mot ...

Brian Clatworthy

2012 Volume 67 Issue 1

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A Word for Today: Fellowship (Gk. Koinonia)

One of the things that cricket enthusiasts are always keen to see, especially if they are English(!), is meaningful batting partnerships. This sort of partnership emphasizes the ve ...

Brian Clatworthy

2012 Volume 67 Issue 2

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A Word for Today: Kinsman Redeemer (Heb. Go’el)

Such is the complexity of modern family life that most societies today have enacted specific laws that relate to families and domestic relationships. In the recent Queen’s speech ...

Brian Clatworthy

2012 Volume 67 Issue 3

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A Word for Today: Reconciliation (Gk. Katallage)

In Shakespeare’s historical play ‘Richard the Third’, the Duke of Buckingham makes the following comment to the queen, ‘Ay, madam: he (Richard) desires to make atonement be ...

Brian Clatworthy

2012 Volume 67 Issue 4

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A Word for Today: Shield, Protection (Heb. Magen)

One of the important features of heraldry is the graphic design of individual or family coats of arms, usually displayed on some form of shield. This decorative imagery goes back t ...

Brian Clatworthy

2013 Volume 68 Issue 1

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A Word for Today: Good (Gk. Kalos)

It is not uncommon today, when someone is asked the question ‘How are you?’ to hear the response ‘Good, thanks’. What, of course, the respondent means is that they are well ...

Brian Clatworthy

2013 Volume 68 Issue 2

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A Word for Today: Vine, Grapevine (Heb. Gephen)

Viticulture or vine cultivation has been practised for many thousands of years. The Greeks were the leading exponents of this science, and it was extended by them throughout the Me ...

Brian Clatworthy

2013 Volume 68 Issue 4

A Word for Today

A Word for Today: Play-acting, Pretence, Hypocrisy (Gk. Hypokrisis)

Sadly, we live in a world that is characterized by hypocrisy. How often do we hear politicians saying one thing on the hustings, and then completely reverse their policies when in ...

Brian Clatworthy

2014 Volume 69 Issue 1

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A Word for Today: Blood, Bloodshed, Bloodguilt, Murder (Heb. Dam)

Some of us may have seen the Moody Institute of Science presentation entitled ‘Red River of Blood’, which, although now somewhat dated, never ceases to make one realize just ho ...

Brian Clatworthy

2014 Volume 69 Issue 2

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A Word for Today: Advocate, Pleader, Intercessor (Gk. Para-kletos)

One of the enduring features of English common law is that it is based on the adversarial system of justice. This gives rise to the practice of advocacy, where parties are represen ...

Brian Clatworthy

2014 Volume 69 Issue 3

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A Word for Today: Wisdom, Skill, Aptitude (Heb. Hokmah)

The story is told that on one occasion a prayer was delivered in Crathie Kirk, near Balmoral (to Queen Victoria’s amusement) ‘that the Almighty would send down His wisdom on th ...

Brian Clatworthy

2014 Volume 69 Issue 4

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A Word for Today: Degree, Step, Stair (Hb. Ma’alah)

Maal - Above, forward, upward Ma’alah - Degree, step, stair Maalal - Endeavour, invention, work The femini ...

Brian Clatworthy

2021 Volume 76 Issue 4

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A Word for Today: Fear (Gk. Phobos)

phbaytron - Terrorphobos - FearPhoebe - Phoebe The Oxford Engl ...

Brian Clatworthy

2022 Volume 77 Issue 1

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A Word for Today: Earth (Gk. Ekklesia)

ekkleio (To shut out)ekklesia (Assembly, congregation, church)ekklin ...

Brian Clatworthy

2022 Volume 77 Issue 3

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A Word for Today: Manna (Hb. Mannah)

Mana (Deny, keep, withhold)Manah (Portion, part)Manammim

Brian Clatworthy

2022 Volume 77 Issue 4

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