The transcription discusses the importance of understanding words correctly in order to comprehend scripture. It introduces a series on reading comprehension and the meanings of various words related to the study of scripture and the Godhead. The episode is the twelfth in the series and covers miscellaneous concepts that don't warrant their own episode. The purpose of the series is to help individuals learn about the Godhead and come to their own conclusions based on scripture. The episode also provides a recap of previous episodes in the series. Overall, the transcription emphasizes the need for accurate reading comprehension and understanding of words in scripture.
Words are important and they have a lot of meaning and we have to understand them correctly as the authors intended in order to know what it is scripture is actually trying to teach us. In this dross we're going to go over what reading comprehension is, the various meanings of several different words so that you can better understand these words as it relates to your study of scripture as a whole and the study of the Godhead in particular during this series.
So stay tuned for this teaching from God Honest Truth Ministries. So this episode is going to be the twelfth in our series and this is going to be an episode of various miscellaneous concepts that don't really warrant an entire episode in and of themselves. These are going to be things like meaning of words, what Lord means, begotten, father, son, etc. Things like that. So just some miscellaneous things that will be helpful for your understanding of the subject of the Godhead but it's not really efficient to make an episode in and of themselves.
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Now before we get into the meat of this dross let's go ahead and review what the purpose of this series is for anyone who may be just joining us midstream as it were. But anyways the purpose of this series is so that you can start from a point of knowing absolutely nothing about the Godhead. Learn what scripture states about the Godhead and then at the end come to your own conclusion based off of scripture alone about which concept of the Godhead that you most align with or most agree with.
Now you may not agree with any of the main four you may think it's all an issue of splitting hairs and you'll see a point in it and that's fine too. Taking a particular stance on the subject of the Godhead is not relevant to your salvation. You're not going to be saved because you believe in one concept of the Godhead over another and you're not going to lose your salvation simply because you align more with a particular concept of the Godhead.
So either way you go that's fine with us. You're still brothers and sisters in the side to us. Just hope that you do learn something and understand this subject a whole lot better than when you first started out. Just to recap what we've gone through so far in this series because this is episode 12. So in episode 1 we went over the introduction to the series. We went over various terminology we use in the series, the purpose of the series, various terminology like fear-mongering, exegesis, exegesis, the names of Yahweh and Yeshua, quickly on the term Elohim as it relates to the concept of God or gods, and also heresy and orthodoxy.
We went over the four main concepts of the Godhead which is sanitarianism, benetarianism, physical unitarianism, and oneness or modalism. We also went over just real briefly what is salvation. Just to give you the assurance that no matter which concept that you end up aligning with you're not going to lose your salvation and your salvation is not based on you choosing a particular concept of the Godhead. In episode 2 we went over the words God or gods and Elohim as it comes from the Hebrew.
We went over the concept of names and titles, invariant nouns, the word Elohim, the word God and gods and what that actually means compared as to what we think it means. Very interesting episode. Make sure you definitely go back and watch that in particular. Episode 3 we went over the Shema, what the Shema is. We went over the concept of ordinal numbers, cardinal numbers, the difference between unity and unified and one. In other words, the difference in Hebrew between Yahad and Yahid.
In episode 4 we went over the phrase sons of God, how the phrase son of relates, what it actually means in relation to both a direct meaning and also as an attribute of someone explaining what their habits are, their lifestyle, things like that. We went over how this phrase son of pertains to angels, men and also our Messiah Yeshua. In episode 5 we went over the meaning of names. What's in a name? Name replaces men and women.
In episode 6 we went over the phrase name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the phrase where it comes from in Matthew chapter 28 verse 19 and what that means. Also, kind of attached to that, what baptism or immersion looked like as it was performed in the Brit Hadashah as well as early history of the church. We went over the concept of name as authority and not just the vocalization that you say about someone. We went over the use in scripture of the singular name to refer to multiple people.
We also looked at the Kamajohanian, Shemtob, Didache and the early writers. Episode 7 we went over the word worship, what that means and how that meaning of that word has evolved over time. We went over the concept in the Middle East and especially Semitic cultures of showing respect and what worship really is as it's used in scripture in the various contexts as well. We also went over how worship, what worship looks like in both the Tanakh or Old Testament and the Brit Hadashah or the New Testament.
Episode 8 we went over the concept of spirit in general. We went over the description of spirit, the distinction that the scripture makes between body, soul and spirit. We went over what spirit is in scripture, the various kinds of spirit that you'll see as you go through scripture as it pertains to men, supernatural beings such as angels and demons, Yahweh and also various attributes such as the spirit of jealousy or something like that. Episode 9 we went over the specific concepts of the spirit of the holy or holy spirit or how you want to put it.
We went over a synopsis of the previous episode of spirit. We looked at some problems that often come up when examining this concept of spirit of the holy such problems as capitalization, grammar, the concept of person and also personification. We looked at the set apart spirit or the holy spirit or the spirit of the holy as how you want to put it in particular and specifically also in that episode. Episode 10 we looked at the original sin.
We looked at what is original sin, what some people think of it. So there's various definitions out there but we looked at it as how it's traditionally understood most of the time. We looked at what is sin, the roots of original sin, where it came from, things like that. We looked at Judaism and how they view original sin also especially back in the early history of the Christian church. We looked at whether or not people are judged for others sins all coming from scripture.
And we also looked at the age of accountability that concept and whether it did or did not exist in scripture. We also looked at using logic and reason as it pertains to the concepts of original sin. Now just a quick note on original sin. This episode is about an hour or so but that doesn't even begin to cover everything about this concept of original sin. This is just to give you a good understanding of what it is in order to help you better make a decision on or better understand it as it applies to the broader subject that we're studying of the Godhead.
Episode 11, last episode, we looked at various distinctions that we can see from scripture itself. We looked at the advantages to understanding distinctions so you know why you want to understand particular distinctions. We looked at distinctions from scripture especially as it's regarding Yahweh, Yeshua, angels, and humans and we compared all those and the various attributes we looked at were things like mortality, omniscience, sin, sleeping, forgiving sin, doing miracles, and whether or not that particular group of people or person can be hindered or not.
So now that brings us up to episode 12. We're going to be looking at various miscellaneous things and the first thing we're going to start out with is the concept of basic language. Not to intentionally try to insult anyone here because it's not the intention here, but a lot of people, and we've got to look in the mirror a lot of times when we do this, but when we read scripture we just instinctively tend to place our own traditions and what we already know upon scripture itself as we read through the Bible, as we study various Bible passages.
These, without even knowing it, these traditions come up in our head and we don't read things correctly. So we have to go back to basics and basic language skills and read it straight as it comes from scripture and do our best to read it from a blank slate sort of mind in order to understand what scripture is actually trying to portray to us instead of us having our own traditions get in the way and muddy things up.
But this goes to the heart of basic language and that's reading comprehension. Of course when we read scripture, when we read an article or something online or a magazine or a book, we have to use reading comprehension to understand exactly what it is we're reading. Now from Oxford.co.uk, quote, reading comprehension is the ability to read text, process it, and understand its meaning. It relies on two interconnected abilities, word reading, being able to decode the symbols on the page, and language comprehension, being able to understand the meaning of the words and sentences.
Let me stop right here real quick. This is basically what reading comprehension is. We need to understand this and we need to apply reading comprehension when we look at the text. They go on and they point out something that's of particular importance or that really stuck out to me as I was doing all this research. And they go on to say, quote, when we make sense of a text, however, we don't just remember the exact words and phrases we read.
Rather, we form a mental model of what the text describes by integrating the sense of the words and sentences into a meaningful whole, end quote. And that's really important to understand. That's what I was talking about earlier, is that when you read these words and they go into sentences, they are to construct a mental image of what the text is trying to describe or put out there and teach you, especially scripture. And if you've already got this mental model in your head of what you think the text is supposed to read, and then you go into reading it, that's like performing eisegesis.
Your own thoughts and concepts are going back into scripture, and that's backwards. The tail is wagging the dog. It's the dog wagging the tail. So we don't need to do that. We need to enter our minds and read the text as it is, just the words, and let the text create the model in our minds fresh and anew every time. Read it like you're reading it from an eight-year-old's perspective who knew nothing about scripture. And let the text speak to you and teach you anew.
Again, I know it's hard. We all do it, myself included. But we've got to block out traditions and preconceptions that we've known all our lives and let the text speak to us fresh and anew. And when we're reading the text, we have to understand, in order to do this mental model, in order to understand what the text is teaching us, we have to understand what we're reading, and that goes down to the basic building blocks of words.
And words are extremely important. So we've got to know the meaning of words and what those words mean and what the author is trying to convey to us when the author writes down a particular word. So words are extremely important. Words have meaning, obviously. And the authors who wrote the books of the Bible did so by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, correct, but they're using and selecting certain words to convey a certain meaning. So we have to use it as the author's intended.
But if we just arbitrarily change the meaning of a word or not understanding the meaning of a word, this can lead to various things. It's also a form or a component of the process of eisegesis, which we should not do. And just for those of you playing the home game, eisegesis is reading into the text of Scripture what you want to say instead of getting out of the text of Scripture what Scripture is trying to say.
Also, arbitrarily changing the meaning of a word or not understanding the meaning of a word can lead to distortion of what the author was actually intending to mean or teach us. And such distortions can result in understanding that stray from what Scripture is actually trying to teach. This is very important for a number of reasons because various things build upon each other to help understand even greater concepts. Think about it. When you first became a Christian, if you're a mainstream Christianity, you go to Sunday school.
You learn things like the creation account, the fall of man. You learn about the building of the Tower of Babel. You learn about Noah and the flood. And you especially learn about Jesus in various singular episodes and things like that in Scripture. But as you advance, as you get more into the meat, all these things start building upon themselves to help you better understand higher and even more involved concepts. And this is one of the things that the subject of Godhead really is.
It's one of those more involved concepts. So you've really got to understand what you're reading in a particular passage in order to build that block in order to build the entire building, as it were. But if you don't understand what you're reading, that block is going to be off, your understanding is going to be off, and it could redirect your entire understanding of an entire subject way off and be completely even against Scripture at times. So definitely make sure that you know what you're reading, that you're reading it the way the authors intended by not changing the meaning of a word.
Do your study, do your homework, get a dictionary. I mean, we have the internet now, which is very, very powerful. Now, they're very destructive, but it's very, very powerful for learning things. You don't have to go to seminary and get an eight-year degree in order to understand these things in Scripture. You can go and find teachings, you can go and find concordances and dictionaries, various translations, all of this. So make sure that you understand what it is that you're reading every single time you read it in order to build that greater concept of whatever it is that you're studying.
We've got to understand the words, we've got to understand what it is the author is actually trying to convey. So on that note, what is it that the authors are trying to convey when they use the word father? Well, if you look at a modern secular, we'll call it that, dictionary, such as Merriam-Webster, father has a number of different meanings and a number of different contexts, obviously. But the definitions that's going to be most important to us in our study of the Godhead is the first entry right here, where it says that father is a male parent or a man who has begotten a child.
And also it's got the definition of God, because obviously God is our father, right? But you get the idea that father is someone, a male or someone who's referred to in the male context. But it's someone who is male and they have created something or brought something forth, whether that's an actual person or a concept or a product, something like that. But they have created something, they have sired something, as they used to say. According to the Collins Dictionary, a father is a male parent, a person who founds a line or family for any male acting in a paternal capacity.
So this would even apply to someone like an adoptive father, someone who adopts someone else. And finally, from dictionary.com, father is defined as a man who begets offspring, a male parent, often father, one's own male parent, usually father, a term of address for a male parent or a man having or regarded as having the status, function, or authority of a male parent, and any male ancestor, especially the founder of a family or line or genitor. So again, this goes all the way back to that original male creating or producing something.
And the Jews use this a lot. They say, our father Abraham. Well, Abraham was, especially in the Berchot Hashav, Abraham was not their next in line in their ancestry. So they couldn't be their direct father, but they could still refer to him as their father because he was way back in the line of lineage, but he still sired Isaac, who begat Joseph, on down the line. So let's look at some examples from scripture just to get a better idea and because that's how we roll.
We like to prove things straight from scripture. Joshua, chapter 24, verse 2, And Yahushua said to all the people, Thus said Yahweh Elohim of Yisrael, Long ago your fathers dwelt beyond the river, Terah the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor. So Terah sired, produced, created, begot Abraham and also Nahor. That's what it means by father of. We also see in Joshua, I'm sorry, 1 Samuel chapter 14, verse 51, And Kish was the father of Shaul and Nahor the father of Abner.
So here we see that Kish sired, begotten, fathered Shaul and Nahor sired, begot, or fathered Abner. In Ruth, chapter 4, verse 17, And the women her neighbors gave him a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi, and they called his name Obed. He was the father of Yishai, the father of Dawid. So here, Obed fathered, or sired, or produced, created, begot Yishai, who sired, fathered, created, produced, Dawid. And finally, in 1 Chronicles, chapter 7, verse 31, And the sons of Bereah, Heber, and Melchiel who was the father of Beerzah.
So here we see Melchiel siring, creating, producing, begot, beginning, Beerzah. So that's what father of means. Father of means the vast majority of the time in Scripture, it means an actual person who sired, or fathered, or begot, as the King James says, another human being. But even though that's the way it's used most of the time, it's also used in other ways as well, as someone who has created various concepts, or attributes, things like that. We look at James, chapter 1, verse 17.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning. Yahweh created everything, including light. So it's appropriate to refer to him as the father of lights. Then we look at Ephesians, chapter 1, verse 17. At the Elohim of our Master, Yeshua Messiah, the father of esteem would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. So again, esteem and glory, honor, things like that.
Appropriate to say that Yahweh is the father of esteem. Then we go on to look at the related term, son. And here from Merriam-Webster, it defines son as a human male offspring, especially of human beings, a male adopted child, a human male descendant. Here we can see a son is someone who has come from another person. And in scripture, it's usually speaking of the father, but it can be the mother sometimes. Anyways, son is referring to a human being, the vast majority of the time, who was created or begotten or sired or whatnot by someone else.
According to the Collins Dictionary for son, it defines son as a male offspring, a boy or man in relation to his parents, a male descendant. Male descendant. So again, define it just like Merriam-Webster did, that son is a male offspring or descendant, someone who came from someone else. Now, let's go back to basic language and reading comprehension and understanding. Father as a man, you are not a father until you have children, correct? I mean, think about that.
Before you were called parents, you were just another person, especially speaking to the men, but also just the women, too, out there. But as far as you guys out there go, I mean, you're not a father until you have children. You're not a father until you have a child. Before that, you're called by your name, you're called doctor, mister, or whatever, but you're not a father until you have a child. A son has a father, but it only makes sense that the son comes after the father.
The person of the father has to exist first before the son can be a son, can be sired or created or begotten or will turn into one of youse. Otherwise, if they come into existence at the same time, at the same age, you would call that kind of relationship twins, not father and son. You'd call brother, sister, brother, brother, sister, sister, whatever. They would be twins, not father and son. So it just makes sense that we understand this because father comes before son, son comes after father.
But anyways, let's go and look at some scriptural examples here for son. Genesis chapter 11, verse 31. And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur-Kastim to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelt there. Here you can see that Lot was the son of Haran. So Haran, let's go back to the father analogy.
Haran, fathered, sired, created, produced, begot Lot. And Terah, fathered, sired, created, produced, begot Abram. So both of these, Abram and Lot, were sons. They came after their respective fathers. But they were sons because they were sired by their fathers. Exodus chapter 31, verse 2. See, I have called by name Betzalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Yehudah. So here again, we see that whole son relationship, where Betzalel is the son of Uri, who fathered him, who sired him, who begot him.
Who was the son of Hur, who fathered him, who sired him, who begot him. So we can see here, again, the whole father-son relationship, where Hur predates Uri, who predates Betzalel. Numbers chapter 1, verse 5. And these are the names of the men who stand with you. From Reuben, Elitzur, son of Sheddiur. Again, we have Elitzur, who was begotten, sired, produced, created by Sheddiur. And Sheddiur came before Elitzur. And Sheddiur, again, was not a father until he had children.
And then we go to Matthew chapter 10, verse 2. And these are the names of the 12 emissaries. First, Shimon, who is called Kepha, and Andrei, his brother. Yaakov, the son of Zebedee, and Yohanan, his brother. So once again, just to illustrate this whole son concept, Yaakov was sired, begotten, created, produced by Zebedee. And once again, Zebedee was not a father until he had children. And Zebedee, of course, was in existence and came before Yaakov. How do we know this? Because it says that Yaakov was the son of Zebedee, and Zebedee was the father of Yaakov.
That's just basic understanding of language and how language works. That's the words and the language that the authors use to convey a particular message. So understand that when you read it. Understand those underlying concepts there that we all know just implicitly, but bring us to the forefront when we're reading Scripture so we can have an even better understanding of Scripture itself and what Scripture is trying to teach us. So now let's go ahead and look at that good old word, begotten.
What does begotten actually mean? Well, from etymological source for words and whatnot, begotten means procreated from the late 14th century, and it's the past participle adjective from beget. And according to Merriam-Webster.com, begotten means to brought into existence, or if as by a parent. So as I said, begotten was a past participle of beget. So what does beget mean? From etym online, beget means to get by effort, find, acquire, attain, or seize. And that is from the middle English.
But starting a little bit later, it means the sense of to procreate. That comes from about the 1200s and generally used as a father only. It means to get or obtain. From Merriam-Webster.com, beget means to procreate as the father or sire. It also means to produce, especially as an effect or outgrowth. So that's what beget means, when it says someone is begotten, which we'll look at in a minute. That's what they're talking about. It means that they procreated, they produced or created something.
Even looking back at very old dictionaries, most of these words like beget and begotten, things like that, come from the King James, which was produced in 1611. I couldn't find a dictionary from the 1600s, but I did find one from 1730. And this dictionary, as they were using it at the time, which was extremely close to the writing of the King James, beget means to generate, to produce. So that's a word that hasn't changed much over the years up until our time.
And then another dictionary from the year 1726. Beget means to produce or to generate. Once again, to own a wine, beget or begotten means to produce, generate, create. Various things like that, procreate. But looking at examples from scripture of begotten. Genesis chapter 4, verse 18. Remembering from the King James here this time. And unto Enoch was born Erod, and Erod begat Mahujah, Mahujahel, and Mahujahel begat Methusel, and Methusel begat Lamech. What does this all mean? What does this all mean? It means that all these guys fathered, or sired, or created, or produced these sons.
Here in the King James it uses begat, and things like the ESE, they translate it as fathered. And translations like the translation we use, which is the scriptures 2009, it uses the term brought forth. So, Erod brought forth Mahujahel, and Mahujahel brought forth Methusel, and Methusel brought forth Lamech. Then moving on to look at Matthew chapter 1, verse 2. And again, reading from the King James. Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judas and his brothers.
So, good old King James version uses the word begat, and other translations use other things, such as the LSB, which says things like Abraham was the father of Isaac, instead of begat Isaac. And then the scriptures 2009 states it as Abraham brought forth Yishak, instead of Abraham begat Yishak. Yishak. Once again, begat simply means to sire, to father, to bring forth, to procreate, to create, to produce. That's what begat, and by extension, begotten, actually means. So, another word that people oftentimes get confused and misunderstand because of tradition, and church teaching, and things like that, is the word Lord.
Unfortunately, a lot of people understand the word Lord to be just another word, another synonym for Yahweh, just like they understand the word God. But way back when, we found out that God is not just a, or not a synonym for Yahweh. That God is a title, and it can be used of many different people, and it has all throughout scripture. We've shown examples of that. Well, Lord is in that same category. Lord is not a synonym for Yahweh.
Lord is a title, and it is applied to many different people throughout scripture. So, what does Lord actually mean? From Edom Online, that etymological website again for words, Lord comes from about the mid-13th century. Levered, Lovered from Old English. Lawthorne, master of a household, ruler, little lord, superior, husband, also God. And got translated into the Old English, and contraction of earlier words. One who guards the loaves, bread, loaf, keeper, guardian, receive, watch out for, various things that came into this particular word.
Again, from 1700s dictionaries was to look at what they would have understood Lord to mean way back when, especially when the King James was first translated. So, this is not 1611 or 1600s. This is from 1708. So, much, much closer to the writing of King James than we are now. So, when people use that word Lord back then, how did they understand it? What did they think it means? According to the 1708 dictionary that I was able to find, Lord means, quote, a word of honor attributed to those who are noble by birth, of creation, or those that are so-called by the courtesy of England, and sometimes to persons honorable by their employment.
In law, a person as a fief, and consequently the homage of tenants within his manor, end quote. And from a dictionary that I found from 1726, Lord means, quote, and afford, or afford, because lords and noblemen in old times gave loaves to a certain number of, or a title of honor, sometimes attributed to those who are noble by birth or creation, sometimes to as given by the courtesy of England to the sons of Dukes and Marquess, and sometimes to persons honorable by their employment, end quote.
Sorry for the bad spelling, but if you'll look at the screenshots I took of these dictionaries, those old words and those old fonts they use is extremely hard to read sometimes, and it gets confusing, but I did the best I could. So, bear with me and give me a little leeway there. But that's what they understood the word Lord to mean back then. It was a title of honor, a title of respect, someone to whom respect was due.
It was not a synonym for Yahweh, and it's not really the same thing as the word God. So, Lord could have been applied to anyone. Could have been applied definitely to Yahweh, definitely to Yeshua, but could be applied to other people as well. Think about it. Even today in England they have this House of Lords. Does that mean there's a whole bunch of gods up there? No. It simply means it's a congregation of people, probably men, who are in some way worthy of honor and respect.
So, they're given the title of Lord. But again, Lord is a title, not a name, and it's not a synonym for Yahweh. But when we look at it in scripture, Lord comes from two particular words. In Hebrew, that word is Adon. In Strong's definition for Adon, which we translate as Lord, means sovereign, ruler, controller, lord, master, owner, things like that. Brown, Drover, Briggs, pretty much the same thing. Adon, which we would translate as Lord, means lord, master, superintendent of household or affairs, master, king, or a reference to God.
It's seen in his Hebrew lexicon, very similar. Lord, master, possessor, owner, master of servants, kings, lords of their subjects, the husband, lord of a wife, of God, an address of honor to those who are more noble, all to whom respect is due, a father, a prince, or king, etc., etc. Jastrow's Dictionary of Targums and Klein's Dictionary state pretty much the same thing. Lord, judge, lord of all creatures, lord, lord, master, possessor, things like that. So that's the Hebrew word and how it's used.
And this word Adon, or Lord, is used of a great number of people, not just Yahweh. So it's not synonymous for Yahweh. It's a title that can be applied to just about anyone who is worthy of honor or respect, even human beings. But the Greek equivalent that you'll see a lot of times in the Brit Hadashah, or New Testament, is the word kurios. That's kurios, and that's Strong's G2962. And according to Strong's definition, this is where it gets a little weird.
And we'll give you examples to back up everything we're asserting. But in Strong's definition, it defines kurios as supreme and authority, controller, master, god, lord, master, or serve. But then we look at the Thayer's Greek Lexicon, and it has kurios, or lord, defined as he to whom a personal thing belongs, master, lord, the possessor and dispossessor of a thing, a title of honor, respect, and reverence, god, the messiah, etc., etc. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament defines kurios as a title for god and for Christ.
Notice here, this lexicon is defensively stating itself that kurios, or lord, is a title, not a name. Stubb goes on to define kurios as chief or leader, the one who commands us, one who owns and controls property, owner, master, lord, one who rules or exercises authority over others, ruler, master, lord, a title of respect, sir, mister, things like that, etc., etc. So now you've got a good definition of what lord actually means. We can better understand it.
So let's do a practical application, and once again, look at examples straight from Scripture. Genesis chapter 18, verse 12, And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? So here, Sarah is referring to Abraham as her lord. In the Hebrew text, you can see the word used there is adonai, which is a conjugation of the first person possessive, meaning my lord or my master, and that she's referring to Abraham.
And here in the Septuagint, the Greek version, it has the word kurios for lord or master. Again, kurios in relation to Abraham. Sarah is saying that Abraham is her master or her lord. Genesis chapter 31, verse 35, And Rachel said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is upon me. So he searched but did not find a household idol. And again, here this word in Hebrew is the word adonai.
Rachel is referring to her father Laban as her lord or her master, or various things like that. And again, in the Greek version, the Septuagint, you find the word kurios used. Rachel is referring to Laban as her kurios, as her lord, as her master. So you can see how this goes, how it's being used. Being used not just of Yahweh, but also various people. Whether it's in a husband-wife relationship, a father-daughter relationship, it can be used in a master-servant or master-slave relationship, etc, etc.
But it's a title of honor and of respect and whatnot. And we look again at 1 Peter chapter 3, verse 6. As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, of whom you became children, doing good, and not frightened by any fear. So here we're seeing, again, the reference to Sarah referring to Abraham and calling him lord or master. According to the Geneva translation, it says that as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him sir. According to the WNT translation, Sarah obeyed Abraham, acknowledging his authority over her.
And according to the ECB translation, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Adonai. Weird choice in my opinion there, but you can translate it various ways. And you can see here, it is translated various ways. Now we do not live in 1600s or 1700s England. I live in America, and I live in 2025 now. So we are way removed from that time period of the King James. You still use lord, that's fine. I actually know some women who refer to their husband as lord, even in today's day and age.
But in our cultural context, the more modern equivalent would be something like sir. As Abraham referred to, I'm sorry, as Sarah referred to Abraham as sir. The wife could call her husband sir. He would refer to other people a lot of times as sir, as a showing of respect and honor. We do it all the time. I was in the Marine Corps, that happened all the time. When you're enlisted and someone of an officer rank, higher rank than you, you refer to them as sir.
But it's a title, a showing of honor and respect. Lord is not a synonym for Yahweh. Lord is a title that gets applied to various people all throughout scripture. We've seen a few examples here. There's a whole bunch more as you go looking through the pages of the Bible. Now if you like more examples than this, hey, go look for your Bible yourself or go look at the notes that we have in the article post for this episode on godhonesttruth.com or click on the link down below in the description.
So in summary, reading scripture correctly and as it was intended by the author who wrote it, is critical for correctly understanding what it is scripture is trying to tell us or teach us or convey to us. Father means a male who has brought forth a child, product, concept, things like that. Son means a male who was brought forth by parents and usually in scripture it means referring to the father. Begotten means to procreate or bring forth and this is also usually only used of the father.
Lord, as we just got done going over, is a word of honor and respect meaning things like master, ruler, superior, husband, sir, even mister, things like that. And words have meaning. Words are important and we need to understand them and use them as they were intended by the author in order to understand scripture correctly and not get astray on anything that we believe from scripture. And that's just the God honest truth. So I really hope you got something out of this.
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