(b) Zero in on words that you don’t understand. 4:1-13 crops up in verse 11 and again in verse 12. For instance, the word normally translated as “content” in Phil. (a) Look for words (beyond conjunctions, prepositions, articles, etc.) that are repeated, which is one clue that they contribute in some way to a theme in the passage. In your passage of choice, pick out 3-4 words to study. The lady sitting next to me glanced over and said, “It’s Greek to me!” I smiled and responded, “Actually, it’s Hebrew.” Thankfully, she laughed.īut even if you consider yourself linguistically languid, or you can’t tell a Hebrew aleph from a Greek alpha (those are letters of the alphabet), YOU CAN do basic word studies on the Bible. seminar paper that included a good bit of the original language of the Old Testament. I was sitting on a plane a couple of years ago, grading a Ph.D. Add the words “Hebrew” and “Greek” to a discussion and we slap the nearest seminary student or permanently ban the word “Lexicon” from ever being spoken in our presence again. I hope you, if you are an American, are the exception, but the vast majority of us, as Americans, are pretty isolated linguistically, many of us flat out intimidated by languages other than our own.
Do you know what you call a person who speaks 1 language? An American! (My European friends, most of whom are bi- or trilingual, love that joke). Do you know what you call a person who speaks 2 languages? Bilingual. Do you know what you call a person who speaks 3 languages? Trilingual.
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