ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “anointed” - late 14c., "smeared with oil," past-participle adjective from anoint (v.) The noun meaning "a consecrated one" (as in Lord's Anointed) 🕎2 Samuel 5;1-12 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “rich” - Old English rice "strong, powerful; great, mighty; of high rank" (senses now obsolete), in later Old English "wealthy;" 🕎2 Corinthians 8:9 & Revelation 2:9 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “country” - mid-13c., "(one's) native land;" c. 1300, "any geographic area," "region, district,” "(land) spread before one," as "area surrounding a walled city or town
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “government” - late 14c., "act of governing or ruling;" “system by which a thing is governed" from Old French "control, direction, administration" 🕎Matthew 19:28 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “noble” - c. 1200, "illustrious, distinguished, of high rank or birth," from Old French noble "of noble bearing or birth, well-known, famous, renowned; excellent, superior, splendid; superior birth
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “elect” - early 15c., "to choose for an office, position, or duty," from Latin electus, "to pick out, "to collect, gather." "those chosen by God" 🕎1 Peter 2:1-6 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “just” - late 14c., "morally upright, righteous in the eyes of God" ("Now chiefly as a Biblical archaism" - This is from "a right," "legal right, law" 🕎Matthew 19:28 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “righteous” - an early 16c. rightwise,, of actions, "characterized by justice, morally right," of persons, "just, upright; conforming to divine law," 🕎Luke 5:32 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “seed” - Middle English Figurative sense of "offspring, progeny, posterity," From late 14c. as "act or time of sowing." The meaning "semen, male fecundating fluid,” 🕎 Romans 1:3 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “gentile” - "one who is not a Israelite," c. 1400; (late 14c.), gentilis "of the same family. belonging to the same nation. fellow countrymen, kinsmen," but also "foreigners”