Biblical Words
Understand the meaning of important biblical words, phrases, and theological terms found in Scripture. Learn how these words deepen your understanding of God's message and His plan for humanity.
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All Biblical Words
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Saving Grace
Saving grace refers to God's unmerited, sovereign favour that rescues sinners from spiritual death and grants eternal life through Jesus Christ. Promi...
Scapegoat
The scapegoat was a central element in ancient Israel's Day of Atonement ritual described in Leviticus 16. Chosen by lot, this goat symbolically carri...
Second Death
The phrase 'second death' appears exclusively in the Book of Revelation, referring to the final, irreversible judgment and eternal separation of the u...
Selah
Selah is a mysterious Hebrew term appearing seventy-four times in the Old Testament, primarily within the Book of Psalms. Widely understood as a music...
Set Apart
To be set apart is the core biblical definition of holiness and consecration. Scripture reveals how God reserves persons, places, times, and objects f...
Shalom
Shalom is a fundamental Hebrew concept in Scripture that denotes far more than the absence of conflict. It signifies completeness, soundness, welfare,...
Shekinah
Shekinah is a rabbinic Hebrew term derived from the biblical root meaning to dwell. It denotes the visible, glorious manifestation of God's divine pre...
Shema
The Shema, taking its name from the opening Hebrew word of Deuteronomy 6:4 meaning 'Hear', serves as the central biblical confession declaring Yahweh'...
Sheol
Sheol is the Hebrew term used in the Old Testament for the realm of the dead, denoting the shadowy subterranean abode where souls descend after physic...
Sons of God
The phrase 'sons of God' appears in both Testaments of the Bible, referring variously to heavenly angelic beings, the covenant nation of Israel, and b...
Soter
Soter is the ancient Greek term meaning 'saviour', 'deliverer', or 'preserver'. Found throughout the Septuagint and New Testament, it describes God th...
Spirit of Adoption
The Spirit of adoption refers to the Holy Spirit's vital role in conferring and confirming a believer's standing as a full child of God. Grounded in R...
Spiritual Growth
Spiritual growth is the Spirit-empowered, progressive development of a believer in Christian maturity, holy character, and intimate knowledge of God....
Substitution
Substitution in biblical theology refers to the principle where one stands in the place of another to bear a penalty or fulfill an obligation. Most pr...
Sufficient Grace
Sufficient grace refers to the divine favour and power granted by God that fully sustains believers through trials, weakness, and suffering. Most famo...
Talitha Cumi
Talitha Cumi is an Aramaic phrase preserved in the Gospel of Mark, translating to 'Little girl, I say to you, arise.' Spoken by Jesus Christ when rais...
Toledoth
Toledoth is a foundational Hebrew term meaning generations or historical account. Appearing eleven times in Genesis, it provides the structural framew...
Torah
The Torah, derived from the Hebrew root meaning 'to teach' or 'to guide', refers primarily to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible—Genesis, Exodus...
Trinitas
Trinitas is the Latin theological term coined by early Christian writer Tertullian to describe the biblical revelation of God as one divine essence ex...
True Vine
The True Vine is a vital Christological metaphor found in John 15, where Jesus presents himself as the authentic source of spiritual life, calling bel...
Unmerited Favour
Unmerited favour describes the divine grace by which God offers salvation, forgiveness, and blessing to humanity without regard to human merit, works,...
Verbum
Verbum is the Latin word for 'word', famously used in Jerome's Vulgate translation of John 1:1 to render the Greek Logos. It represents the Son of God...
Yah
Yah is the shortened, poetic form of Yahweh, appearing fifty times in the Hebrew Bible, especially in the Psalms and Isaiah. It expresses divine majes...
Yahweh
Yahweh is the personal covenant name of the God of Israel revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures. Most prominently disclosed to Moses at the burning bush i...
