ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “Latin” - Roman, the region of Italy around Rome, Classical Latin flourished from about 75 B.C.E. to about 200 C.E., the Latin of Lucretius, Catullus, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Livy, Seneca. 🕎Luke 23;35-38 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “saved” - late 14c., "delivered from damnation, destined for Heaven," past-participle adjective from save (v.). 🕎John 17;9-26 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “testament” - late 13c., "last will, expressing the final disposition of one's property," Latin testamentum "a last will, publication of a will," “ be witness to”🕎ROMANS 9;1-18 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “sport” - c. 1400, "take pleasure, enjoy or amuse oneself," from Old French desporter, "to divert, please; to seek amusement," etymologically "carry away" 🕎Psalms 83;1-9 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “lord” - mid-13c., laverd, loverd, from Old English hlaford "master of a household, ruler, feudal lord, superior; husband," also "God," 🕎 1 Corinthians 11:3 & Matthew 22;44-46 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “Easter” - from Proto-Germanic *austron-, "dawn," also the name of a goddess whose feast was celebrated in Eastermonað (the Anglo-Saxon month corresponding with April). 🕎Ezekiel 8:12-18 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 “thug” - 1810, "member of a gang of murderers & robbers who strangled their victims," from thak "cheat, swindler," "cunning, fraudulent," 🕎Jeremiah 5;25-28 KJV
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 “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 “mischief” - c. 1300, "evil condition, wickedness, wrongdoing, evil," harm, trouble; “vexation" from meschever "come or bring to grief, (Meaning "harm or evil” "playful malice”
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 “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 “shepherd” - Middle English shep-herd, "man who leads, tends, and guards sheep in a pasture," from Old English sceaphierde. and watch sheep," "watch over or guide" 🕎1 Peter 5:4 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,”