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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.
chronos
Time as duration. The other half of the pair, and the one English defaults to.
Acts 1:7, in every translation this tool compares.
Chronic. Chronology. English borrowed this root for exactly the duration sense and left the other one behind.
Because it is the word that is not being used in the famous passages, and knowing the pair is what makes the other one visible.
Every version reads time.
χρόνος chronos · G5550
Chronos is extent of time, the ticking kind. Acts 1:7 uses both nouns in one sentence, times and seasons, which is the clearest place to see the pair.
English has no second noun, so the pairing at Acts 1:7 reads as an idiom rather than as two distinct ideas.
Learn the pair, not the word. Half of what a Greek word means is which other word it was chosen over.
Time is universal.
- chronos and kairos together at Acts 1:7 and 1 Thessalonians 5:1
- English chronic, chronology, chronicle from this root
