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Profitable For All Things:
What's an Instant Word Study?
Can you do a word study in 10 seconds or less?
Quick! Tell me:
- How many different variations of the word "joy" are in the Bible?
- How many times does each variation occur, and in which verses?
- How many different Greek words does the English word "love" translate?
What are those words?
- How many Hebrew words does it take to say "self-exaltation" in English?
What are those words?
- When the Bible says that the slave "prostrated himself before" his
master, how many of those English words actually appear in Greek?
Find the answers to questions like these by performing an
Instant Word Study!
Perhaps you are wondering, "What exactly is a word study?" "Isn't that the
same thing as a word search?" "Why would I
want to do a word study in the first place?"
Word study is one of a number of tools you can use to understand the Bible.
It helps you clarify the meaning of individuals words in a Bible passage.
It's not the first tool you would use,
but it is an important one.
"Is word study something different from a word search?" Yes!
There are plenty of great Bible search tools available, but once you get
the search results - then what? You have to analyze the results to get
the big picture, and doing that analysis is very labor intensive and
time-consuming. Furthermore, if you
don't know the original languages of the Bible, your job is that much
harder. But with Instant Word Study,
you can cut that hurdle down to size!
"So, if it's so much work, why do a word study at all?" Well, if you lived
in a desert, why would you dig a hole in the ground? To get to the water!
Word study is a tool for digging into the Bible, and only in
the Bible can we find the Living Water that satisfies our deepest thirst.
Consequently, studying the Bible is one of the core disciplines of the
Christian life.
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