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4)

- And he ends by Exodus 6:8 :

And I will bring
וְהֵבֵאתִ֤י (wə·hê·ḇê·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

you
אֶתְכֶם֙ (’eṯ·ḵem)
Direct object marker | second person masculine plural
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

into
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the land
הָאָ֔רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

that
אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

I swore
נָשָׂ֙אתִי֙ (nā·śā·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

to give
לָתֵ֣ת (lā·ṯêṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

to Abraham,
לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם (lə·’aḇ·rā·hām)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 85: Abraham -- 'exalted father', the father of the Jewish nation

Isaac,
לְיִצְחָ֖ק (lə·yiṣ·ḥāq)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3327: Isaac -- 'he laughs', son of Abraham and Sarah

and Jacob.
וּֽלְיַעֲקֹ֑ב (ū·lə·ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc

I will give
וְנָתַתִּ֨י (wə·nā·ṯat·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

it
אֹתָ֥הּ (’ō·ṯāh)
Direct object marker | third person feminine singular
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

to you
לָכֶ֛ם (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

as a possession.
מוֹרָשָׁ֖ה (mō·w·rā·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4181: A possession

I
אֲנִ֥י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

am the LORD!’”
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

- Then he will reveals to the israelites as YAH.WEH THAT IS THE GOD OF THE PROMISE OR OF THE PROMISES WHEN HE GIVES THEM THE LAND OF CANAAN AS A POSSESSION !

 

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5)

- Then we can go back to Exodus 3:15 :

God
אֱלֹהִ֜ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

also
ע֨וֹד (‘ō·wḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 5750: Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more

told
וַיֹּאמֶר֩ (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

Moses,
מֹשֶׁ֗ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

“Say
תֹאמַר֮ (ṯō·mar)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the Israelites,
בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

‘The LORD,
יְהוָ֞ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

the God
אֱלֹהֵ֣י (’ĕ·lō·hê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

of your fathers—
אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֗ם (’ă·ḇō·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1: Father

the God
אֱלֹהֵ֨י (’ĕ·lō·hê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

of Abraham,
אַבְרָהָ֜ם (’aḇ·rā·hām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 85: Abraham -- 'exalted father', the father of the Jewish nation

the God
אֱלֹהֵ֥י (’ĕ·lō·hê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

of Isaac,
יִצְחָ֛ק (yiṣ·ḥāq)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3327: Isaac -- 'he laughs', son of Abraham and Sarah

and the God
וֵאלֹהֵ֥י (wê·lō·hê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

of Jacob—
יַעֲקֹ֖ב (ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc

has sent
שְׁלָחַ֣נִי (šə·lā·ḥa·nî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

me to you.’
אֲלֵיכֶ֑ם (’ă·lê·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

This
זֶה־ (zeh-)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

is My name
שְּׁמִ֣י (šə·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 8034: A name

forever,
לְעֹלָ֔ם (lə·‘ō·lām)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always

and this
וְזֶ֥ה (wə·zeh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

is how I am to be remembered
זִכְרִ֖י (ziḵ·rî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2143: A memento, recollection, commemoration

in every generation.
לְדֹ֥ר (lə·ḏōr)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1755: A revolution of time, an age, generation, a dwelling

- YES THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION !

- THOSE WHO DON’T FOLLOW THIS VERSE ARE IN COMPLETE OPPOSITION TO YAH.WEH !

 

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6)

- That’s why I usually put this small message to tell people to be careful with translations :

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:
  • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• 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"

 

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Somebody says :

Well, I agree with you and I note that you have fallen into the same trap that you warn others about.

I pointed that you claimed that Abraham was given land in the land of Canaan, but Stephen said that Abraham was not given any of the land of Canaan, even to rest his foot upon. The members of the Sanhedrin standing around him did not disagree with Stephen in Acts 7.

It seems that you have missed the context of what I have posted. I posted my paraphrase of Genesis 13:14-15 using the NKJV this time with the changes that I believe are required to provide the right context of what was recorded in the original Hebrew text.

If you want to disagree with my contextual paraphrase, then write your rebuttal based on those verses so that you can demonstrate that I am in error, otherwise you are fishing for other passages that may not be speaking of the same thing.

The passages that you quoted Ex 3:8, 3:15, 6:3, 6:4 and 6:8 are all not applicable to the conversation that you have started.

Shalom

 

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My answer :

- On the contrary, Yah.weh made a promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (thus he appeared to them as God almighty but not as Yah.weh)!

- He revealed himself as Yah.weh to the Israelites when they received the promised land of Canaan when they took it by fighting and with Yah.weh's help!

- Of course, Abraham didn't get the land of Canaan!

- He was only a foreigner!

- And there were many people living on this land!

 

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Somebody says :

And now you are agreeing with what I had originally posted in my first response in this thread to your claim in Chapter 13 of Genesis that: -
by saying that Abraham in Genesis 13:14-15 was not given any of the land that he had walked upon, but that his descendants after him would receive this land for a finite period of time where the end point of that time period would be beyond their ability to comprehend.

So, all of your rebuttal post had no purpose in this conversation.

You have confirmed why I am only need to skim through your very long posts.

Shalom

 

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- My answer :

- Not at all !

- Of course, Yah.weh didn’t give the land of Canaan to Abraham when he was there !

- Why do I always have to go back to Ancient Hebrew grammar to explain the basic ?

- And it is the same with Ancient greek grammar !

Genesis 13:15 :

For
כִּ֧י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the land
הָאָ֛רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

that
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

you
אַתָּ֥ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

see,
רֹאֶ֖ה (rō·’eh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

I will give
אֶתְּנֶ֑נָּה (’et·tə·nen·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

to you
לְךָ֣ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

and your offspring
וּֽלְזַרְעֲךָ֖ (ū·lə·zar·‘ă·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

forever.
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

https://uhg.readthedocs.io/en/latest/verb_imperfect.html

Verb Imperfect​

Summary​

An Imperfect verb is used generally to indicate an action that is not COMPLETE, or an action that either OCCURS in the PRESENT or WILL OCCUR IN THE FUTURE. However, an Imperfect verb can also be used to describe other kinds of actions.

Article​

In Biblical Hebrew the Imperfect conjugation is used generally to describe actions that are not completed or actions that occur in the present or future. However, the Imperfect conjugation is also used to describe several other kinds of actions as determined by the context. These include frequentive or durative actions, negative commands, indirect commands, potential actions, and actions of greater or lesser desirability (similar to Jussive verbs and Cohortative verbs).
The normal Imperfect conjugation with the conjunction waw (וְ “and”) as a prefix is different from the Sequential Imperfect, which utilizes a specialized form of the conjunction and contains a different meaning. Sometimes a verb with Imperfect conjugation occurs within a clause after another finite verb (as in Gen 49:27 below, supplying the linking verb to be). In these cases, the context must determine whether the Imperfect verb is functioning as a non-finite verb to complement the preceding main verb, or whether it is functioning as a second main verb.



- AND ONCE AGAIN I HAVE TO REPEAT THAT EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED TO GOD’S NAME WHICH IS YAH.WEH MEANING THE GOD OF THE PROMISE OR OF THE PROMISES !

- Yah.weh made the promise to Abraham that he would give the land of Canaan to his offspring !

- But there was a covenant to respect from Yah.weh and the israelites !

- Then you get what you get according to your actions !

- Yah.weh made the promise to Abraham to give him a son but Abraham and Sarah were old !

- It took time but it finally happened !

- Faithful servants of Yah.weh must show their faith in him !

- You can say Abraham didn’t offer his son to Yah.weh but he was to do it !

- That’s why he was called Yah.weh’s friend !

- Yah.weh gave him his son Isaac and he told him he would become a great nation through him !

- And Abraham had faith in Yah.weh !

- The Israelites lost the promised land because of their opposition and their lack of faith !

- It was only their children who finally inherited the promised land !

- But they finally lost everything !

- That’s the same for us today !

- Nothing has changed !

- That’s the same history !

- The difference this time is that it is the whole mankind !

- Do I have to remember you how it used to be to get married !

- Do you remember Joseph and Mary !

- They were to get married !

- But there is a big difference with today !

- When you were promised in marriage, you were married !

- That’s why Joseph wanted to divorce secretly from Mary !

- IF YOU SEE WITH MAN’S EYES, YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE !

THAT’S WHY IT IS NECESSARY TO STUDY THE BIBLE AGAIN AND AGAIN !

- THEN WE SHOW THAT WE CARE FOR YAH.WEH !

 

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14) Genesis 14


There is a war and Sodom and Gomorrah lose. And Lot is taken by the victors. Someone escapes and tells Abram. So he mobilizes his trained men (318 men) and pursues the victors. And he defeats the victors and recovers all the goods and Lot and the other people. And he meets Melchizedek, king of Salem who is priest of the Most High God and Melchizedek blesses him. And Abram gives him a tenth of everything. And he gives back everything to the king of Sodom.


- We see Abram as a man of action who doesn’t lose time and reacts all at once to save Lot!


- He knows what belongs to God by giving a tenth of everything!


- And he is not greedy because he could have kept everything but he gives back to the king of Sodom what belongs to him!


- We can easily understand why he was chosen by God!

 

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15) Genesis 15


Abram is childless and god tells him he will get a son. And he makes the promise to give him the land of Canaan. Then Abram makes an offering to God. Then a deep sleep falls upon him. In his sleep, God tells Abram that his offspring will be foreigners in a foreign country and enslaved and afflicted for 400 years. But after that, God will free them. And Abram will die old. And his offspring will come back to canaan. And God makes a covenant with Abram and a promise about the promised land.

- Here we get an important and essential promise for Abram about the promised land of Canaan!


- And a son too!

 

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16) Genesis 16


Abram and Sarai have no children So Sarai tells Abram to have relations with her servant Agar to get a child. So Agar becomes pregnant and she begins to despise her mistress. As a consequence, Sarai humiliates her and she runs away from her. But god’s angel tells her to go back to Sarai and humble herself under her hand. And he tells her that God will make a great nation. She will have a son and she must call him Ishmael. Abram is 86 when Ishmael was born.


- This situation reminds us of Elkanah, Samuel’s father and his two wives!


- Sarai shouldn’t have done that!


- Why make it easier when it is possible to make it more complicated!


- Human beings are really strange especially when they oppose God!

 

[THINK!]

Why are you "Looking"? It's in the front of your Bible.

 

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Why are you "Looking"? It's in the front of your Bible.

- I would cite 1 Timothy 2:4

who
ὃς (hos)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

desires
θέλει (thelei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2309: To will, wish, desire, be willing, intend, design.

all
πάντας (pantas)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

men
ἀνθρώπους (anthrōpous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.

to be saved
σωθῆναι (sōthēnai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Passive
Strong's 4982: To save, heal, preserve, rescue. From a primary sos; to save, i.e. Deliver or protect.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

to come
ἐλθεῖν (elthein)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's 2064: To come, go.

to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

[the] knowledge
ἐπίγνωσιν (epignōsin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1922: From epiginosko; recognition, i.e. full discernment, acknowledgement.

of [the] truth.
ἀληθείας (alētheias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 225: From alethes; truth.

- come to the knowledge of the truth!
- and to come to this knowledge it is necessary to look for it!
- And it is hard work!
- It is not for amateurs!
- it is for people who are ready to strive to get it!

 

[THINK!]

 

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- Or maybe you prefer John 17:3

Now
δέ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

this
αὕτη (hautē)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

is
ἐστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

eternal
αἰώνιος (aiōnios)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 166: From aion; perpetual.

life,
ζωὴ (zōē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2222: Life, both of physical (present) and of spiritual (particularly future) existence. From zao; life.

that
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

they may know
γινώσκωσιν (ginōskōsin)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications.

You,
σὲ (se)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

only
μόνον (monon)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3441: Only, solitary, desolate. Probably from meno; remaining, i.e. Sole or single; by implication, mere.

TRUE
ἀληθινὸν (alēthinon)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 228: True (lit: made of truth), real, genuine. From alethes; truthful.

God,
Θεὸν (Theon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦν (Iēsoun)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

Christ,
Χριστόν (Christon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.

whom
ὃν (hon)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

You have sent.
ἀπέστειλας (apesteilas)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 649: From apo and stello; set apart, i.e. to send out literally or figuratively.

 

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LESSON XXXII: Subjunctive Active. Vivid Future Conditions

daedalus.umkc.edu

The subjunctive mood is used in place of the indicative to express wishes, and exhortations. The subjunctive is also used in dependent clauses such as purpose clauses and fear clauses and also in certain types of conditional sentences.

 

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Strong's #1097 - γινώσκω - Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary - StudyLight.org

Strong's #1097 - γινώσκω in the Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary on StudyLight.org

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ginṓskō

Thayer's

1. to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel
   1. to become known
2. to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of
   1. to understand
   2. to know
3. Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman
4. to become acquainted with, to know

 

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Heh! So are you attempting it to read "And this is life in heaven, that they know Us the only true Gods."

 

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Heh! So are you attempting it to read "And this is life in heaven, that they know Us the only true Gods."

- And the best for the end:

Ginosko – Knowledge that Goes Beyond Information – Ezra Project

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Ginosko – Knowledge that Goes Beyond Information​

Doing Your Own Word Studies


You can study the Bible without knowing Greek. That’s how most Christians do it. Even a great Christian scholar like Saint Augustine disliked Greek, and worked in Latin when he was writing theology. But Greek offers advantages. It’s like switching from black and white TV to high definition color screens. You can see what’s happening either way, but it’s more satisfying to watch the upgraded medium.





You can learn to use proven techniques to study Greek words for yourself. Just go to the Ezra Project Web site and take a look at the new Word Study Course that will be available in its completed form by the end of January.

Ginōskō – Knowledge that Goes Beyond Information​

We live in the Big Information Age. A 10-year-old with a smart phone has access to more data than you can find in the Library of Congress. One source estimates that Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft collectively store enough bytes to play 2.2 billion years of music.


We know so much, but I wonder how much we really know.


Social media gives the illusion of intimacy. You can be “friends” with thousands of people, sharing the details of what you ate for breakfast but having no actual contact with them.


We know so many, but I wonder how many people we really know.


Long before the Internet existed, the Bible dealt with a similar predicament: knowing God without really knowing God.


No question is more important, and we can throw light on the answer by considering the Greek words for “knowing.”


The New Testament employs two Greek verbs for “know” most of the time.

• Oida (about 318 times)
• Ginōskō (about 225 times)

Both words are translated as “know,” covering a broad range of possible ideas. With blockbuster words like these, a full investigation would flow into multiple chapters, so we will track one important line of thought.


The two words overlap quite a bit, and they often seem to be used interchangeably. But there are some differences in flavor.


Consider two kinds of knowledge:

1. Knowledge of facts

You know that 2+2=4. This is a raw fact. It’s easy to learn, and once you master it, you know all there is to know about it.

1. Knowledge of people

You know a friend in a different way. You know facts about them, of course, but that’s not all. You know a person because you have spent time talking and doing things together, building a relationship. It is knowledge gained by experience.





This kind of knowledge takes time and it is never complete. Even people celebrating their 50th anniversary can still discover surprises about their spouse!


The Greek word oida can describe either kind of knowledge, but it leans a little toward the knowledge of facts. It is related to the word for “see,” and it often describes the kind of knowledge that results from observation. You have seen the reality and know it to be true. In some cases, you know the truth because God has revealed it.


The word ginōskō, on the other hand, often describes the kind of knowledge involved in building an intimate relationship with a person.

• In fact, ginōskō is tied so tightly to relationships that it is used to describe the sexual relations between a husband and wife (Matthew 1:25; Luke 1:34).
• At the day of judgment, Jesus declared, many would claim to be His followers, but He would say “I never knew you” (Matthew 7:23). Of course, He knew the facts about them, but He had no personal relationship with them.

The apostle John loves to use ginōskō to describe this deeper, person-to-person knowledge that characterizes God. Jesus chose ginōskō to describe the intimacy between the Father and the Son, as well as the connection between Himself and His sheep.


I am the good shepherd: and I know My own, and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father (John 10:14-15).


More than mere acquisition of facts, this knowledge leads to love (1 John 4:7-8) and obedience (John 10:27).


Knowledge about God is important. We need to raise the level of biblical literacy in our day. But actually knowing God in a personal relationship is even more vital. How well do you know God?


Study Hint:


When you study the big words of the New Testament, you may be in danger of drowning in information overload. There’s not time to look at several hundred verses, so you’ll trust what you find in reliable sources.


Words like these overlap in meaning, and the distinctions I’ve drawn here are only general tendencies. They don’t apply to every use of the words. However, you can gain useful insights by viewing verses with them in mind. 2 Corinthians 5:21, for instance, says that Jesus “knew no sin” (ginōskō). Clearly, He knew all about sin, but He didn’t have any personal experience with it.

 

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Or if I just put the essential:

1. Knowledge of people

You know a friend in a different way. You know facts about them, of course, but that’s not all. You know a person because you have spent time talking and doing things together, building a relationship. It is knowledge gained by experience.

This kind of knowledge takes time and it is never complete. Even people celebrating their 50th anniversary can still discover surprises about their spouse!

The word ginōskō, on the other hand, often describes the kind of knowledge involved in building an intimate relationship with a person.

• At the day of judgment, Jesus declared, many would claim to be His followers, but He would say “I never knew you” (Matthew 7:23). Of course, He knew the facts about them, but He had no personal relationship with them.

The apostle John loves to use ginōskō to describe this deeper, person-to-person knowledge that characterizes God. Jesus chose ginōskō to describe the intimacy between the Father and the Son, as well as the connection between Himself and His sheep.

Knowledge about God is important. We need to raise the level of biblical literacy in our day. But actually knowing God in a personal relationship is even more vital. How well do you know God?

 

[THINK!]

Trying to say all Bibles have it wrong is shameful.