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Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.
This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:
The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.
Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.
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- Luke was a physician!
- And the only Gentile to write any part of the New Testament!
- Luke was a close friend of Paul!
- Perhaps Luke’s interest in medicine is the reason his gospel gives such a high profile to Jesus’ acts of healing!
- Luke joined Paul in Troas in Asia Minor during Paul’s second missionary journey!
- Luke was left in Philippi during the second missionary journey!
- And picked up again to travel with Paul on the third journey!
- Luke accompanied Paul on his journey to Jerusalem and Rome and was with him during his imprisonment there!
- Scholars have noted that Luke had an outstanding command of the Greek language!
- His vocabulary is extensive and rich, and his style at times approaches that of classical Greek, as in the preface of his gospel!
- While at other times it seems quite Semitic!
- He was familiar with sailing and had a special love for recording geographical details!
- All this would indicate that Luke was a well-educated, observant, and careful writer!
Remember:
- If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
- They used to write differently!
- They used to speak differently!
- They used to think differently!
- They used to act differently!
Remember:
Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.
This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.
Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:
- Point of time (a specific day)
- time period of a whole or half a day:
- General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
- A year "lived a lot of days"
- Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.
Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.
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