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Hebrew and Greek Without Learning Either
A walk through Genesis, the Psalms, and John, plus the key Hebrew and Greek words worth knowing. Each card is a place the English Bibles part company, and what in the Hebrew or Greek made them.
anastasis
Resurrection. The noun means a standing up again, and it is a bodily word.
1 Corinthians 15:21, in every translation this tool compares.
He got back on his feet. English uses standing for recovery all the time. The Greek noun is that, made literal.
Because English resurrection is a technical religious term with no picture in it, and the Greek noun is physical and ordinary enough to be used of standing up.
Every version reads resurrection or rising.
ἀνάστασις anastasis · G386
Ana, up or again, plus histemi, to stand. The word is concrete, which is part of why the Athenians at Acts 17 reacted to it as they did: it was not a metaphor for survival.
English borrowed a Latin word, resurrectio, so the English term is opaque where the Greek was transparent.
Words borrowed from Latin into English usually lose the picture the Greek had. Taking the Greek compound apart restores it.
Resurrection is universal in English versions.
- Acts 17:32, the reaction at Athens
- 1 Corinthians 15 throughout
- histemi, to stand: Romans 5:2
