ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “prostitute ” - 1520s, "to offer to indiscriminate sexual intercourse" (in exchange for money), "place before or in front," "expose publicly," "harlot” 🕎1 Timothy 2;9-15 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”
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “home” - Old English ham "dwelling place, house, abode, fixed residence; estate; village; Old Norse heimr ", “world," “is preserved” 🕎Revelation 21:1-27 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 “virgin” - c. 1200, "unmarried or chaste woman, from Latin virginem "maiden, unwedded girl or woman," "fresh, unused," marriageable girl," figurative sense of "pure, untainted”
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “saint” - early 12c. as an adjective, seinte, "holy, divinely inspired, worthy of worship," from Old French saint, seinte “devout," "one of the elect”, set apart to the services of God,”
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “lively ” - Old English "living," literally "life-like; “active, energetic" early 13c., For "full of life, vigorous," "vitally," :🕎 Exodus 1:19 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “haughty” - "proud and disdainful," 1520s, a redundant extension of haught (q.v.) "high in one's own estimation" arrogant; presumptuous" 🕎Isaiah 3:16-24 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “princess” - late 14c., "woman of royal or noble birth; daughter or wife of a ruler or prince; 🕎1 Peter 3:6 “Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are”
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 “damsel” - early 13c., damisele, "young, unmarried woman," especially a maiden of gentle birth, also "maid in waiting, handmaiden," from Anglo-French damaisele "woman of noble birth"
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “prince” - c. 1200, "governor, overseer; great man, chief; preeminent representative of a group or class” “noble lord" "first person, chief leader; ruler, sovereign," "heir to a throne,