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Berry's NT Synonyms. Tribe, Family, Household. Girdleston's OT Synonyms. Tribe, Family. The basic household unit which provides a person's central relationships, nurture, and support. The basic composition of a family changes from the Old Testament to the New Testament. Therefore, the search for the traditional biblical family is difficult.
Berry's NT Synonyms. Tribe, Family, Household. Girdleston's OT Synonyms. Tribe, Family. The basic household unit which provides a person's central relationships, nurture, and support. The basic composition of a family changes from the Old Testament to the New Testament. Therefore, the search for the traditional biblical family is difficult.
The Bible is the world's great teacher of monogamy-the union for life of one man and one woman in marriage as the basis of the family. Whatever may be said about the time of the writing of the books of the Bible, or of parts of them, the testimony of the whole is incontrovertibly to the point that marriage springs from the choice of one man and ...
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The Bible opens with a solitary individual, but he isn’t allowed to stay that way long. “It is not good that the man should be alone” (Genesis 2:18). God then brings every animal to the man in order to be judged and named, and the result is that “there was not found a helper fit for him” (Genesis 2:20). The story emphasizes his need for a certain s...
Of course, this original pair was created for a certain purpose. God had told them to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion . . . over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Genesis 1:28). As the language of Genesis 5:1–3also makes clear, the male and female, who were made in the likeness of God, make c...
Christian debates on this topic often come to one particular objection. Isn’t the church our new family? And if so, shouldn’t the community of the church challenge, and perhaps redefine, what we mean when we talk about the family? To answer this, we will need to use some systematic theology. Jesus does indeed say that we must be willing to hate our...
Of course, not everyone has a family. For some, family life has been disrupted due to death, divorce, or great sin. Christians mourn the loss in each of these situations and gladly offer alternative means of support. We see various cases of adoption in the Bible, including by cousins (Esther 2:7) and even in-laws (Ruth 1:16–17). Indeed, in the case...
As we build our families, however, we do not isolate them from the rest of the world. We still have relationships with our parents, along with a duty to help care for them as they age (1 Timothy 5:4). We still make place in our lives for friends, as even Jesus did (John 15:15; John 11:3, 5; John 21:20, 24). And in the church, we still love each oth...
Zechariah. Zeresh. Zilpah. Zophar. If you have any questions or comments about definitions in this terms section or anything else you read on this website, please contact us. Also, let us know of words, terms, or jargon you would like to see added, clarified, or expanded. A lifelong student of the Bible, Peter DeHaan, PhD, wrote the 1,000-page ...
5206. huiothesia -- adoption... adoption. From a presumed compound of huios and a derivative of tithemi; the placing as a son, ie Adoption (figuratively, Christian sonship in respect to God ...
All these words have a very extensive application within the New Testament and are by no means restricted to denote service within the Christian church; even when so restricted the words are used in a great variety of meanings: e.g. (1) discipleship in general ;
