ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “school” - [place of instruction] Middle English scole, from Old English scol, "institution for instruction," from Latin schola "meeting place for teachers and students;" 🕎John 3;1-15 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “sex” - late 14c., "males or females considered collectively," from Latin sexus "a sex, "to divide or cut"🕎Matthew 1:15-25 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “spirit” - vital principle in man & animals," "spirit, soul" & from Latin spiritus "a breathing, breath;" & "breath of god, divine mind;" "the Holy Ghost;
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “tongue” - In the "knowledge of a foreign language.”In 16c.-16c. in the classical revival the Tongues (or the Three Tongues) were Hebrew, Greek, Latin.🕎Acts 2;1-17 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “magic” - late 14c., magike, "art of influencing or predicting events & producing marvels using hidden natural forces," also "enchantment," from Latin magice "sorcery, magic,”
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 “Greek” - Grecas, "Greeks, inhabitants of Greece," from Latin Graeci "the Hellenes," Graikhos as equivalent to Hellenes is found in Aristotle ("Meteorologica") 🕎Acts 16;1-24 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “immortal” - late 14c., "deathless," from Latin immortalis "deathless, undying" (of gods), "imperishable, endless.”🕎1 Corinthians 15;50-53 & 1 Corinthians 15;44-54 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “mischief” - c. 1300, "evil condition, wickedness, wrongdoing, evil," harm, trouble; “vexation" from meschever "come or bring to grief, (Meaning "harm or evil” "playful malice”