The Bible Terms 3

The Word is Alive



Language
Hebrew=Language of the ancient Hebrews, used in OT, retained as a scholarly and religious language after its decline as a vernacular about 4BC.

Chaldean=Ancient Semitic language. Some Hebrew words can have a comparative meaning.

Aramaic=Language of the Jews in Palestine after captivity and that spoken(common dialect)by Jesus and his disciples.

Greek=Indo-European, Hellenistic language of ancient or modern Greece. Ancient ,or classical Greek, from Homer AD200.Four Dialects: Aeolians/Aeolic, Athenians/Attic, Dorians/Doric and Ionians/Ionic.

Late Greek Koine,LGk.(Gr.Koine (dialektos)common form of Greek, an outgrowth of the Attic dialect with many Ionic elements used throughout the Greek world from the time of conquests of Alexander to the six century. Koine was literally the language of Aristotle and Plutarch,and was used inthe septuagint and NT,in its spoken form it became the basis of virtully all modern Greek Dialects.

Latin={L.Latinus of Latium,Latin] Pertains to the ancients Latium, its inhabitants, their culture or language. The Indo-European, Italic language of ancient Latium and Rome, extensive used in western Europe until modern times as a language of learning, and still retained as the official language of the Catholic Church. The popular speech of the Romans in its all stages of the language from about A>D>200 through the medieval period.

Septuagint=LXX[70;from a tradition that it was produced for PtolemyII in 70 days by a group of 72 Palestinian translators] An old Gr.version of the OT.Scriptures,made in Alexandria between 280 and 130BC;It is the version used by the Greek Church.The Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Greek 200 years before Christ.

MV:Ac28:25-28
Bib1Yr:Nu21,22Balaam’s Ass