ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “Nike” - Greek goddess of victory (identified by the Romans with their Victoria), literally "victory, upper hand" (in battle, in contests, in court), connected with neikos "quarrel, strife”
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 “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 “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 “exotic” - 1590s, "belonging to another country,(16c.), from Greek exotikos "foreign," literally "from the outside," “outside" "unusual, strange" 🕎Acts 10;1;48 KJV
Verse for Wednesday, July 10 Amos 5:24- The Message Bible Do you know what I want? I want justice - oceans of it. I want fairness - rivers of it. That's what I want. That's all I want!