![]() Click on the transliteration, “hyperekperissou” (in blue), and you get: ![]() Since we’ve already seen that the translators are struggling to get a good word for “exceedingly above” let’s look at that one. If you really want to geek out, you can dig further into Greek and Hebrew Grammar here: The final column shows grammatical information for how that word is being used. Of course, the actual Greek word comes next (in Greek), followed by a literal translation of the word into English. The second column shows an English “transliteration” of the word-basically it gives you an idea of how to pronounce the word. That was helpful at the time, but today it makes Bible searches so much easier for us than Dr. When Strong published his concordance in 1890, he assigned a number to every Hebrew and Greek word used in the Bible. James Strong was a Biblical theologian who worked creating a concordance of the Bible-which is something like an index. That pulls up a table that looks like this: To get to the Greek, the next thing I click is (surprise) “Greek” in the pale blue menu bar above the verse. Since we see it translated in lots of different ways, it looks like the translators are reaching for a word or phrase that’s hard to translate into English. For instance, I see phrases like “immeasurably more,” “infinitely more,” “exceedingly above,” and “exceedingly abundantly above.” I like going through each one to get an idea of how lots of different scholars have translated the same verse. ![]() The ESV that Pastor David Uth likes is the third one down. If you look up Ephesians 3:20 in it will look something like this:Īs you can see, first it pulls up about a dozen different versions for the verse. If you’re going to read the context of the verse or lots of different versions, is a great choice, but if you’re going to do some serious digging (and don’t have a BibleGateway paid membership), go straight to the listing. If you google Ephesians 3:20 or “Bible more than ask or think” you’re likely to get a result that includes several Bible sites. “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us.” Let’s start with one of the verses that Pastor Chris Ogden used in the sermon this week: Ephesians 3:20. Let me introduce you to some tools that will help get you started. Today, online Bible tools can give you a good approximation of what the Greek or Hebrew words mean and you don’t have to spend years studying to get some really good information. Have you ever wanted to be able to dig deep into a Bible passage and really learn more? It used to take years of study to be able to dig out the meaning in the original language.
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