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6 Hebrew and 4 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “terms”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
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How often each original word is translated “terms” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- דָּבָר dâbârspeech, wordtranslated this way 3 times of its 1,244 uses · Strong’s H1697Noun · Translated: word 342, words 299, acts 51, Chronicles 42Full study and all 1,120 verses →
Judges 11:11 So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.
- עֶפְרוֹן EphrônEphrontranslated this way 1 time of its 13 uses · Strong’s H6085Noun · Translated: Ephron 11, Ephron's terms 1, Ephron's 1Full study and all 12 verses →
Genesis 23:16 Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
- פֶּה pehmouthtranslated this way 1 time of its 423 uses · Strong’s H6310Noun · Translated: mouth 207, mouths 43, command 38, lips 10Full study and all 396 verses →
Deuteronomy 17:11 according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.
- אָבָה âbâhbe willing, consenttranslated this way 1 time of its 35 uses · Strong’s H14Verb · Translated: unwilling 8, would 5, willing 5, yield 2Full study and all 34 verses →
1 Kings 20:8 And the elders and the people all said, “Do not listen to him or consent to his terms.”
- עִם imwithtranslated this way 1 time of its 940 uses · Strong’s H5973Preposition · Translated: with 246, with you 84, with him 61, against 39Full study and all 838 verses →
- מִצְוָה mitsvâhcommandmenttranslated this way 1 time of its 180 uses · Strong’s H4687Noun · Translated: commandments 133, command 17, commandment 12, according to the command 4Full study and all 176 verses →
Greek words (New Testament)
- εἰρήνη eirḗnēpeace, peace of mindtranslated this way 1 time of its 91 uses · Strong’s G1515Noun · Translated: peace 88, secure 1, terms of peace 1, Peacemakers 1Full study and all 84 verses →
Luke 14:32 And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.
- ἄνθρωπος ánthrōposa man, one of the human racetranslated this way 1 time of its 479 uses · Strong’s G444Noun · Translated: man 290, men 127, people 14, man's 8Full study and all 444 verses →
- ἀνθρώπινος anthrṓpinosbelonging to human beings, humantranslated this way 1 time of its 7 uses · Strong’s G442Adjective · Translated: human 4, human terms 1, common to man 1, man 1Full study and all 7 verses →
Romans 6:19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
- κατά katádown from, against, according to, throughout, duringtranslated this way 1 time of its 381 uses · Strong’s G2596Preposition · Translated: according 65, against 46, in 41, by 38Full study and all 349 verses →
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.