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5339 home. The place of origin or residence, to which people feel attached and where they belong. The term is used of houses, towns, lands and in various figurative and spiritual senses. Divine blessing upon homes. It brings peace and security Isa 32:18 See also 2Ki 13:5; Ps 127:1-2.
House. HOUSE ( בַּ֫יִת֒, H1074, Hebrew and Aramaic; bîtu, Akkadian; bt, Ugaritic; bayt, Arabic; οἶκος, οἶκία, Gr.). The word house occurs more than 2,000 times throughout the Bible, denoting a dwelling place, including references to the rudest huts, the palace, and the Temple of God.
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I. Descriptive terms. The Eng. word “Bible” is directly derived from the Gr. word βιβλίον, G1046, (“a little book”), which in turn was derived from the word for the bark of the papyrus plant ( βίβλος, G1047) which was used widely for writing material. The pl. form βιβλία (“books”) was at first used of the ...
A domesticated Jesus embraces the culture’s values without challenging them; He is a “safe” Jesus who is no threat to the established way of doing things. Yet Christ did not come into the world to be “nice” or “safe,” and the Jesus we find in the Gospels cannot be domesticated.
FAMILY. The center of the covenant activity of God is the family. Father, mother, children and extended relatives all play a part in the scriptural ideal. I. Family in the OT. The OT teaching about the family is embodied in the first chs. of the Torah. The creation of God was in a world-order and in a family-order.
If it is the end result, then “subdue” refers only to the animal kingdom and implies something like domestication. If it is only one part, then “subdue” includes utilization of natural resources (e.g., in the ancient world, mining), harnessing of the earth’s energy (e.g., irrigation), and so on.
New Testament. NEW TESTAMENT. There are twenty-seven books in the NT, made up of four gospels, the Book of Acts, twenty-one epistles, and the Book of Revelation. (For a detailed account of how these particular books came to be treated as a special collection see Canon of the New Testament .)
