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 “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 “Puerto Rico” - island in the Greater Antilles group of the West Indies, Spanish, literally "rich harbor;" see port, rich. The name was given in 1493 by Christopher Columbus.🕎Genesis 49;22-26 KJV
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 “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 “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 “gay” - gay (adj.) late 14c., "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, carefree;" also "wanton, lewd, lascivious" (late 12c. as a surname, Philippus de Gay), from Old French gai "joyful, happy;
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “techer” - mid-14c, "one who provides moral guidance to another;" late 14c., "one who gives instruction” 🕎Isaiah 58:1-2 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “Israelite” - mid-14c., "a Jew; one of the people of ancient Israel, a descendant of Israel or Jacob," Jacob and extended to his descendants, from sara "he fought, contended"
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 “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 “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 “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 “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 “home” - Old English ham "dwelling place, house, abode, fixed residence; estate; village; Old Norse heimr ", “world," “is preserved” 🕎Revelation 21:1-27 KJV