Habakkuk chapter number two verse number two the Bible says and the Lord answered me and said write the vision make it plain
Upon tables that he may run that readeth it now
Just to give you a little bit of context because I'm gonna rip this out of context
But the context of this passage is in reference to Nebuchadnezzar. So Nebuchadnezzar is gonna come he's gonna destroy Jerusalem
And there's gonna be a heavy destruction and it says in verse number even one
It says and I will stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower and we'll watch to see what will
What he will say unto me and what I shall answer when I am approved
Then it says in verse 2 and the Lord answered me and said write the vision and make it plain upon the tables that he may
Run that readeth it for the vision is yet for a point of time
So in the future is the point of this passage
But it's saying hey once you see
You know Jerusalem surround with armies and Nebuchadnezzar is coming
The only people that are gonna end up sparing their lives are the ones that run the ones that get out of Dodge
You know, basically the ones that flee from the city of Jerusalem
The rest are gonna be destroyed and wiped out by Nebuchadnezzar, but let's take this principle. What is the principle that's being taught?
The principle that's being taught is that someone could read the Word of God be instructed by it and then make practical
Application out of it and the importance of the Bible is that it's to be understood
The Word of God is to be understood
We want to make things plain whenever we preach the gospel any kind of preaching that we do
The goal should be for people to understand it now
One thing that I've heard is an accusation against the King James Bible
Oftentimes is that it's very hard to be understood. Who's heard somebody say the King James Bibles hard to be understood
I like the other versions go go to Proverbs chapter 1
Well, what they usually will refer to is words right they'll say oh there's certain words in the Bible
They're hard to be understood and they're so difficult and all this well
Partly that's true. There is words in the King James Bible that are hard to be understood
So the title of the evening sermon is hard words in the King James Bible
All right, they're King or in the Bible really just hard words in the Bible
And it doesn't matter if you took an NIV off the shelf. They have hard words in those ones, too
They're just lying about the fact that all the King James has all these hard words
But if we teach everybody in the congregation all the hard words in the Bible
Well, then no longer is that even a possible excuse is it?
Hey, if you learn all the words then now all of a sudden you don't have that as a problem
And I've actually made a list over several years
Anytime I kind of come across a word that I felt like I didn't know it very well or understand the word
I would just write it down and then I would make a point to go look it up and try to understand that word better
Well, I've made kind of a list and so I was like, you know what I think it'd be fun
Just do a different type of sermon just actually go through a lot of these words
With people so they can just understand words in the Bible now
This is gonna be a multi-part sermon because there's no way to get through all those words
But and I have some assistance this evening, so it'll be pretty good
But I think it'll be a little bit different kind of a sermon
The goal is to the main goal is just to learn some of the words in our Bible and to be able to stand them
Because then when you understand certain words in the Bible when you're reading it, you're gonna be able to run through the Bible
Okay, you're gonna be able to understand it quickly
It's gonna make more sense to you and it's not gonna be as confusing Proverbs chapter 1 look at verse 1
the Proverbs of Solomon the son David king of Israel to know wisdom and instruction to
receive the words of understanding to receive the instruction of wisdom justice and
Judgment and equity to give subtly to the simple to the young man knowledge and discretion
look at verse 5 a wise man will hear and
Will increase learning and a man of understanding shall attain and wise counsels
So the Bible says a wise person will constantly learn they're gonna increase learning
That's we're gonna the goal is this evening's to increase our learning and what's the point verse 6 to understand a proverb and the interpretation?
The words of the wise and their dark sayings
So the goal of learning more is so that you can understand the Bible better
The more you understand the carnal truths of the Bible the more you understand the words and what it's saying the better
You're gonna expound on the spiritual truths and they're gonna make more sense to you
So that's why I want to go through and talk about some of the harder words now. I love using a dictionary
I think there's no problem with a dictionary
Dictionaries are great. If it wasn't for a dictionary, we wouldn't understand any words. How do you understand any words?
You know, we have to understand words what they mean
But the way that words are best understood is always in the context in which they're used. So don't hear me wrong
Obviously a dictionary is good, but it's not perfect
We always have to allow context to let us know what words mean and what their definition truly is
But I think the dictionary when you look up words in the King James Bible in the dictionary nine times out of ten
It's great. It's a perfect match. It makes perfect sense. So what's the number one word go to Mark chapter 5 Mark chapter 5? All right
And I have some assistance here today
We're gonna address our first word and we're gonna go in the alphabet A through Z, all right this evening
We're only gonna touch A B and C because we have that's how many words we have. We're gonna attack this word
A do
Now if you're ignorant of the English language, like James White is he might call it a dough
Okay, but that's for a different sermon. All right, but this is a do now. What is a do mean?
You like pulling your hair out what is it
Well, if you look up in the dictionary, it says it's a noun and it's the state of agitation or fuss
Especially about something unimportant so synonyms would be fuss
Agitation stir so hopefully you can kind of see that so I kind of drew some assistance there a do
Alright, so look at Mark chapter 5 verse 35. Let's find this in our Bible
Well yet spake there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said thy daughter is dead
Why trouble is thou the master any further as soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken?
He saith unto the ruler of the synagogue be not afraid only believe and he suffered no man to follow him say Peter and James
and John the brother of James and he came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and
Seeth the tumult and them that wept and wailed greatly and when he was come in he saith unto them
Why make ye this ado and weep the damsel is not dead but sleepeth and they laughed him to scorn
but when he had put them all out
He taketh the father and the mother of the damsel and them that were with them and enter it in where the damsels lies
So obviously if a child was just taking a nap, you're not gonna go around complaining and crying
Why are you making a fuss about your kid taking a nap? I thought it was great
I thought it was the best part of the day is when your kids take a nap, but they thought she was dead
So he's just asking this question is saying why are you making this fuss this agitation about nothing?
Because she's just sleeping but obviously the Lord Jesus Christ
He's aware of the fact that he's gonna rise her from the dead and he truly does
So what is our first word for the evening I do it means a fuss or an agitation
Actually used in our modern vernacular quite often, you know, you could say hey without further ado
I'm going to introduce so-and-so without further ado. Let's go ahead and look it up in a Bible. What are they saying?
They're saying hey, we're not gonna sit here and just babble and keep making a fuss and going on about nothing
Let's just get to the point right or there's even a play called much ado about nothing and basically it's like Seinfeld
Okay, it's a TV show about nothing. Okay, so let's go to the next word
Go to Exodus chapter 28 Exodus chapter 28 and you know, it's not gonna be like a real preaching sermon
This is gonna be a little bit more of a teaching sermon
But I just want to show lots of different words in the Bible and kind of what they mean
Exodus chapter number 28 now this words actually found a couple places in our Bible, but
The word ado is only found in that one place
And I'm not gonna look up every single place that all these words are used but
You say you have really good handwriting it was my wife, all right, so because I don't
Now what is an amethyst our next word is amethyst it's also a noun it's a violet
Variety, of course, so that's this kind of give you an idea that might not be a perfect violet
But you get the idea the name comes from the Koine Greek
amethystos where a means not
amethysto means
Intoxicated it was a reference to the belief that the amethyst stone protects the wearer from drunkenness
You know protects you from drunkenness not drinking alcohol. That's what protects you from drunkenness
The Greek the ancient Greek or amethyst and carved drinking vessels from it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication
The weird stuff that people come up with amethyst is a semi-precious stone often used in jewelry and is the traditional birthstone for February
So when the Bible talks about an amethyst, it's this purple looking stone. Let's look at Exodus 28 verse number 15
And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it of gold of blue
And a purple and of scarlet and a fine twine linen
shalt thou make it for square it shall be being doubled a
span shall be the link thereof and a span shall be the breadth thereof and now shalt set it in the settings of stones even
four rows of stones the first row shall be a Sardis a
Topaz a carbuncle this shall be the first row and the second row shall be an emerald a sapphire and a diamond and the third
Legere and a gate and an amethyst so an
Amethyst, you know, it's basically saying supposed to be a span wide and a span tall
Okay
So there's supposed to be this breastplate that the priest would wear and it has 12 stones
One for each of the tribes and one of those stones is the amethyst now
Another interesting thing is all these stones are also mentioned in the book of Revelation
When it talks about New Jerusalem descending down from heaven
It talks about the wall having 12 foundations and each one of these is one of the foundations of that wall
So that sounds like a pretty cool wall
Now go if you would to Hebrews chapter number 11 Hebrews chapter number 11
And now I might not capture every single word that would be difficult
There's some words that I've made other lists on that I thought about I
Made a lot of lists about animals and there's just some interesting animals there in the Bible
That might be a different sermon for another time
But we're gonna kind of go through some of the words and it just wonder words that I kind of came across that I thought were
interesting the next one is
a say
What is a say mean so I don't know it looks scary but
Now a say is an interesting word
I I really didn't understand this word but to a say is also a verb. Okay, it's to try
Or to attempt to try or to attempt now
Let's look at your Bible Hebrews chapter 11 look at verse 24 by faith Moses when he was come to years
Refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God
Than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season
Esteeming the approach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt for he had respect on the recompense of reward by faith
He forsook Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured as seeing him who is invisible through faith
He kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them by faith
They passed through the Red Sea as by dry land which the Egyptians a saying to do
Word drowned. So when we read that what is it saying?
It's saying the Egyptians they tried to pass through the Red Sea just like the
Children of Israel, but they didn't make it they were ended up being drowned right drowned in the sea
So the the sea and closed upon them, so they tried to make it but they couldn't make it
This is your works based salvation. It doesn't work
You can try as hard as you want never gonna get there
So if we think about him to say you could say he is say to swim the river
But he didn't he didn't make it. He needed a life jacket, you know, you're gonna say to try all kinds of things
Hey, I say to get someone saved this afternoon, but nobody was really interested in the gospel
So a say would just be to try or to make an attempt go view a did Genesis chapter number eight Genesis chapter number eight
Now
For me I would always get these two words confused I get a say and a swage
Confused I would often kind of get them confused mentally or when I would see them, but they're actually different
It's also a verb but a swage is to lessen the intensity of
To lessen the intensity of now look at Genesis chapter 8 verse number 1
it says and God remembered Noah and
every living thing and all the cattle that was with him in the ark and God made a wind to pass over the earth and
the waters
assuaged the fountains also the deep and the
windows of heaven were stopped and the rain from heaven was restrained and the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the
end of the hundred and fifty days where the waters abated
So what is it saying when it says the waters assuage it's saying that they lessened in the intensity of okay
So I kind of have a two-part drawing because verbs are a little bit difficult to draw, right?
But basically whenever the fountains of the deep are broken up and they're just shooting up everywhere and it's torrential rains and it's going everywhere
I mean we can kind of envision it was a little rocky out there wasn't it?
It was a little intense out there, but it's saying eventually the waters assuaged
Meaning what now all of a sudden they're kind of calm now
They're kind of still so something that's assuaged is when the intensity has lessened now
It's not just in reference to maybe a physical object
It could be in relation to anything go to the book of Job and let's look at job chapter 16
Let's sign another place where this is mentioned
But doesn't that fit perfectly with the text that we saw it says the waters assuaged and it even talks about the fountains
Also the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped you would expect the intensity to stop or to lessen
Once the pouring has stopped right when does it stop raining and all the fountains have been blown up
Let's look at another place where this is mentioned job chapter 16
Look at verse number one. It says then job answered and said I have heard many such things
Miserable comforters are ye all shall vain words have an end or what emboldeth thee that thou answer us?
I also could speak as ye do if your soul were in my soul stead
I could heap up words against you and shake mine head at you
But I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief though
I speak my grief is not assuaged and though I forbear what am I ease?
But now he hath made me weary thou hast made desolate all my company now when I read the book of Job. I
Just have to admit it's probably the most difficult book for me
If I were to judge all the books of the Bible
I think Joe's probably one of the most difficult books as far as understanding
So whenever you least get one word that you know in the in the sentence, it's gonna help a little bit more, right?
But what is he trying to say here?
He's saying because he's miserable because he's going through great grief and sorrow and pain
What you would normally expect from someone and paying you a visit would not be to condemn you
But rather to try and come for you try to offer you some kind of soulless try to say hey man
We feel bad for you. I'm sorry
This is happening and just trying to be a comforter trying to be one to say
Hey, you know what the Lord's still good and you know, I'm here to help you and I'm here to be a friend
But what are Job's friends doing man? You're so wicked. You're so sinful
I mean they come after he's literally had the worst days of his life and they're just gonna add on top of it
Just being like man, you need to get right with God buddy
Look how bad you are. That's why he's saying in verse number two miserable comforters
Are you all right? And this just gives a good lesson that we're supposed to weep with them that weep, right?
We're supposed to mourn with them that do mourn
Okay
So if you're around somebody and they've just lost their family member their spouse or their children
You don't want to be like you probably deserve that didn't you?
That'd be a weird thing to say right? Isn't that what's going on with Job? He just lost ten children
And they're trying to make it like his fault isn't aren't they even though when we start the book of Job?
he would offer extra sacrifices for all his children just in case they sinned and
Then all of a sudden he has these guys coming around being like oh you're you probably lost all your family because you're wicked
Because you're sinful what kind of foolishness is that right so we can learn from Job that what he's trying to say here
Is that if he were swapping them places is what he's kind of bringing up
He's saying hey if you guys were the ones that were going through this bad stuff
If you were the ones that had just had all this pain and stuff
He says in verse 5 I would strengthen you with my mouth. I would try you to make you feel better
Say you know what job?
I'm I'm sure that you know God has a reason that he's doing this and I'm sure that you know good things are still gonna be
For you in the future and he has new mercies every single day and all things work together for good to them that love God
To them that are the called according to his purpose job. It's gonna work out
He would try to strengthen them and he says in the moving of my lips notice this should assuage
Your grief, what is he saying there?
It should lessen the intensity of your grief by trying to comfort them and strengthen them
He says in verse 6 though. I speak my grief is not as way so he's saying I can't comfort myself. Okay?
It'd be nice if I could just somehow comfort myself here, but it's not working out
It'd be nice if somebody else would come around and give me you know some comfort and sometimes
That's how a lot of people feel right then the lies you feel that way. I'm alone and he's just wants to die
It's nice to be around like-minded people that believe the same things that can come alongside and can strengthen you
Two are better than one. So here's a great lesson that we can learn, you know
I thought of another example how it could use this this word in a sentence
After the baby was born her pain assuaged right? I mean at the point of birth
It's pretty much the most intense after the birth the intensity
You know starts a lesson doesn't it starts to get a little bit better, you know, she's not screaming bloody murder anymore
She's excited that a man's born in the world. So what does this wage mean?
It means to lessen the intensity of now go if you would in your Bible to Numbers chapter 24 Numbers chapter 24
Now our next word is
Allos
Allos now when I think of that word, you know what comes to mind if I say allo, I
Think of like aloe vera, right, but you know, that's not what the Bible is talking about
That's often sometimes our problem we think of something but we haven't really looked it up
Allos
Now again, some of these things may not add a lot of you know benefit to the immediate text
but I I still think it's beneficial to understand all the words that we have in our Bible and allos are actually an
Incense or perfume from line trees or agarwood
So there's actually a tree that produces, you know allos
Okay, and I'll read for you what an agarwood tree
It says the soft dark heartwood that is produced by any of various
Southeast Asian evergreen trees
It says when they become infected with a fungus and that contains a fragrant resin used chiefly to produce
incense perfumes and traditional medicines
All you women you didn't know you're putting fungus on, you know, I really like the smell of your fungus
You say oh, I don't I don't use that kind. I use the kind that's from whales
Called ambergris, you know what ambergris is? It's whale fecal matter
It's actually clumps of squid beaks and fatty secretions that come from whales and it's seven thousand dollars a pound
Using your perfume you smell so good
You smell like what whales do, you know
They've eaten too much, right? Isn't that interesting?
You want to put a lot more perfume on though, right?
But look at numbers 24 verse number 6, right?
the Bible says as the valleys are they spread forth as gardens by the riverside as
The trees of Lynn allos which the Lord had planted and as cedar trees beside the waters
So the Bible actually used the word allos quite a bit in this context
We see it's talking about the what the tree right the Linn tree and that's what the allos are referred to now
There is a plant called an aloe vera plant, but that's not what the Bible is talking about. It's talking about allos
Go if you would in the book of John I want to go to one other place there
But you know, it says in Proverbs 7 I perfume my bed with myrrh allos and cinnamon
That's talking about the whorish woman trying to entice the guy also in the songs of Solomon though
It she uses it too
She says spikenorn and saffron calamus and cinnamon with all trees of frankincense
Myrrh and allos with all the cheese spices. So she decorated her house with fungus, you know
You just get the right trees growing in your house. You know, it'll smell good
John chapter 19 look at verse 39. Here's another place where it's used and there came also Nicodemus
Which at the first came to Jesus by night and brought a mixture of myrrh and allos about a hundred pound weight
So not only is it just used in normal fragrances
But also in the fact that they're gonna bury Christ and they're gonna use this incense or this perfume for the stinking body
Right, but his body doesn't see corruption. So they didn't even need it
Right now you could say this your home smells great from all the allos or you could use fungus. No, it's kidding
Probably you should use the allos right go if you would to song of Solomon chapter number five song of Solomon chapter five
So there's there's your allos
And
Some of these words are you know more exciting than others, but I figured we might as well learn them all
Next word I had is barrel
Barrel now, I think of like a wheelbarrow or something, but we're talking about a stone here a
Barrel stone now a barrel stone. This one's a little bit more difficult to maybe
Distinguish exactly what the Bible is describing in some of these places but a barrel is a noun. It's a mineral composed of beryllium aluminum
cyclosilicate with the chemical formula of beryllium 3 aluminum 2 silicon 6 oxygen 18 well-known varieties of barrel include emerald and
Aquamarine naturally occurring hexagonal crystals a barrel can be up to several meters in size
But terminated crystals are relatively rare pure barrel is colorless
But it is frequently tinted by impurities
Possible colors are green blue yellow red and white barrel is also an ore source of beryllium. So
interestingly enough
Barrel is colorless just in its most natural state and form but it says due to impurities
It could be green blue yellow red or even white now. Sometimes the Bible talks about people
Being a color of barrel like their chest is the color of barrel
I don't know which one that is. So, you know, you could guess with me. Maybe it's white
I kind of think maybe it might because it's the pure form
It's probably white but I can't be exactly certain but let's find a place here
It says the song of Solomon 5 look at verse 13
His cheeks are as a bed of spices as sweet flowers his lips like lilies dropping sweet smelling myrrh
His hands are as gold rings set with the barrel his belly is as bright ivory
overlaid with sapphires
So, you know, obviously this this gold rings set with the barrel
It could very well just be in reference to its shape not necessarily even its color
Just the fact that the barrel stone might be cut in a particular way and his hands are very strong
But we see this barrel stone, you know, it's kind of a color stone go view into Isaiah chapter number 14
Isaiah chapter number 14
Now here's the thing some of these words that are found in our Bible, okay
I don't care if you go to the NIV or not. How do you make this word easier?
Right, and so there's plenty of words in the Bible that it's not like you can just make them easier
We just had to learn what they are and the some words are somewhat unfamiliar
Okay
Now there are some words that we're just not familiar with there is a modern vernacular
But I just like learning new words. Anyways, so our next word is besom
Besom now, I don't think very many people have any idea what a besom is
But whenever you learn what it is, it's just it's a common thing a besom is a broom
So when the Bible used the word besom, it's just talking about a broom
Look at Isaiah chapter 14 verse number 23. I will also make it a possession for the bitter and
Pools of water and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction
Sayeth the Lord of hosts now just from the context
It sounds pretty obvious what it's talking about right the broom of destruction now, that sounds pretty intense, right?
You know, you don't want mom chasing you with the besom, you know the besom of destruction
You thought is the rod of correction that you had to worry about and it's that besom of destruction, right?
Go if you would to job chapter 6 job chapter number 6
Another
Thing you have to understand is
some words can have multiple definitions and and these are the those are the words that you have to really pay attention to you know
In some words that get a lot of people in trouble would be the word like wine
Right or the word repent or there's a lot of other words that can have multiple definitions
This one has multiple definitions and it's probably not going to get you in too much trouble
Mixing them up, but you know, it's still important to realize that words can have multiple definitions
That's the beauty of the English language, you know
And if you speak Spanish you have 55 words that mean the same thing and the English language
You have one word that means 55 things, right? So it's kind of an opposite, but we have the word Bray
Bray, what's a brave? Well, look at job chapter 6 verse number 5
doth the wild-ass Bray
When he hath grass or loweth the ox over his fodder
So again, the book of Job uses a lot of different words that are a little bit harder to be understood
So sometimes it takes away from understanding the context but what's a Bray a Bray is?
To utter the utter characteristic loud harsh cry of a donkey or a mule. So he's just basically like
Oh
That's what a Bray is okay, and they Bray whenever they're hungry or angry or there's something irritating them
Oh, you know, that's what they're doing. Okay, and what's the lowing the lowest the ox over his fodder?
That's the cow's moo
And it's saying are these animals gonna make their noise
When they finally get fed the answer is no if you're reading the context is a constant reiteration of no no, no
No, no
The the donkey he's not gonna get mad that he's getting fed
The cows not gonna get mad that he's getting fed
And so it kind of helps you understand what's being said and communicated in that passage go go to Proverbs 27 Proverbs chapter number 27
Now you can look up a donkey and you can get a better sound than I was making but they kind of like even whistle
I don't know as if it's funny the sound that they make
But Bray can also be used as a verb so it's a noun
It's the loud cry of a donkey or it can mean to crush or grind to fine powder
Okay, look at Proverbs 27 verse 22
Though thou shouldest Bray a fool and a mortar among wheat with a pestle
Yet will not his foolishness depart from him
So we have a mortar and pestle here
It's these little devices and the action verb associated with them is brain. What is brain?
well
you take some kind of food or some kind of substance that you want to grind down into powder and you sit there and you
Just mash it and crush it and turn until it turns into a fine little grains of powder
Okay, that's basically what a lot of people do to create
You know flower or all kinds of different food items throughout centuries is you would use a mortar and pestle here and
it's saying even if you could take a flat earther and you could put them in the mortar and the pestle and
Grind them all the way down. He would still say hey the earth's flat like
Just every fiber of his being just every part of his essence. You can't get the foolishness out of the full
No matter how much you grind them and you hold them down and you push them down
It's just saying look this guy will not depart from his foolishness. You're still flat. You're just like
That's why you know
the Bible tells us a man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition
Reject because no matter how much you prove it to them. There's still not many times gonna receive it. It's frustrating and
You're like, but it makes perfect sense. But let me explain it to you. Let me show you the pictures
Let me show you all the evidence. Let me show you all the math
It doesn't matter how much you sit there and grind him down. He's still it's still flat. I just still believe it
I just I just know that it's true. Okay. Well have fun with that. Go to the Exodus chapter 30 Exodus chapter number 30
So you got your donkey he's the fool right we could put him in the in the mortar and pestle he still is
Flat earth
Next
One I have is Calamus Calus, we're already into the seas. All right moving along
What is a Calamus
Calamus is an interesting plant here that we have
It's the aromatic peeled and dried
Rhizome of the sweet flag that is the source of the carcinogenic essential oil
So it comes from a plant sweet flag
it's a perennial marsh herb and the arum family with long narrow sword shaped leaves and
Aromatic root stock. So you have this Calamus. It's really, you know coming from these little
Undeveloped flowers. Okay, you have this this root or whatever
So you have these Calamus plants that are coming and it's just some kind of a you know
Incense or some kind of thing that can be made into an oil
We see in
Exodus chapter 30 verse 23
take thou also into the principal spices of
Pure myrrh 500 shekels and a sweet cinnamon half so much even 250 shekels and of a sweet Calamus
250 shekels so even in that context
I don't think you'd be confused and
Really?
You don't even need the dictionary many of these cases because even when you look it up the dictionary
You're probably not gonna really remember it and you just use the surrounding context and it's like hey
It's spices and it's related to like sweet cinnamon and myrrh and myrrh and some of these other things
So just from understanding what cinnamon is or Calamus is it can help you understand what some of these other words are
Go to song of Solomon chapter number one song of Solomon chapter one
Here's another one that's very similar
This
Word is campfire
campfire
now
Campfire is a noun. It's from a henna
fragrant flower or
Camper so there, you know, if you look up campfire, they say it's like an archaic word
It's really now camp for but a camper is a tough gummy volatile aromatic
crystalline compound
Obtained essential especially from the wood and bark of the campfire tree and used in a liniment and mild topical and a gelsic
in medicine as a
Plasticizer and an insect repellent. So you have this henna fragment, you know fragrant flower and it's related to this other
You know campfire, but basically they just take these elements and they're making some kind of a sweet spice
It says in song of Solomon chapter 1 it says verse 14
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of campfire in the vineyards of and Getty so you can see
you know some kind of a vineyard or some kind of a garden they'd have these type of
Flowering plants and they would just take them and they could use them as some kind of a medicine or an insect repellent
So, you know, my beloved is unto me as an insect repellent. No, I'm just kidding
It's obviously, you know in the context of maybe a medicine or something. That's good
And you know sometimes, you know a spouse can be like a medicine right can make you feel better
Can be something that's good unto you. I think of it like as a child you think of your mom as medicine, right?
Anytime you're sick or hurting you just want mom then when you get married, it's your wife, right?
Go to Leviticus chapter number three Leviticus chapter number three
So we're going through and learning some of these words and as we go down the list
There's some that I really feel like we can kind of expound on and it's gonna be really beneficial
As far as some of the other teachings that we have
But I think it's beneficial to be educated and know all these words as much as you can be able to pronounce them
Yep, campfire
Well, we want to get some of that campfire then people start saying like this guy doesn't even know what he's saying
You know, you want to make sure you can kind of pronounce some of the words you have a semblance of what they mean
What
About this word the call now call is found in your Bible a lot
There is a lot of mentions of call if you've been reading the Old Testament. I mean, it's call here and call there
It's just like a constant call. Okay. What does it call? It has a couple different definitions as a noun
It's fat also known as lace fat
omentum
Crepin or fat netting it is the thin membrane which surrounds the internal organs of some animals such as cows sheep and
Pigs also known as the greater omentum. It is used as a casing for sausages
Roulades pates and various other meat dishes. So a
call is basically a
fatty net that surrounds meat in
An animal a lot of times the Bible say the call which is above the liver. Okay, so it's like this white
netting that you would have on me and sometimes you can take the whole netting kind of off of a piece of meat and people
Show it up and just like this white webbing that just kind of goes on there as some kind of protective netting
That's on the internal parts of the organ
Look at Leviticus chapter 3 verse 3 and he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the Lord
the fat that covered the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards and the two kidneys and the
Fat that is on them which is by the flanks and the call above the liver with the kidneys
It shall he take away
So we see a lot of fat mentioned and then it says the call we can notice that's probably a fatty thing
They're taking this fatty thing off of the liver now go view with Isaiah chapter 3 Isaiah chapter number 3
Now it's interesting because if you understand what a call is in real life as far as like the internal organs
You'll understand why people use this as apparel because the call is actually in reference to apparel also
You say apparel a call is a historical headdress worn by women that covers tied-up hair a
fancy call could be made of satin velvet fine silk or
Brocade, although a simple call would commonly be made of white linen or cotton
The call could be covered by a crespin or a hairnet to secure it from falling off
Now in Isaiah chapter number 3 it says in verse 17
Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab
The crown of the head of the daughters of Zion and the Lord will discover their secret parts in that day
The Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet and their calls and their round tires like men. So
Think of Princess Leia. Okay. Sorry. My drawings a little crude, right?
She's got the hair on the sides and then she's got this netting special headdress that's on
That's like a call a cause basically a netted hairdress that's put on why because it's just like that netting that's on the meat
Isn't it? And so and it's talking about the call talking about something that's fancy
Obviously you don't think of the fatty on the means fancy
Okay
but the the netting has that same term that's put on that women would put on as a
Really fancy way to dress and really to dress up and look really nice
So that's what it means by the call go if you would to revelation 21 revelation 21
I
So the next word we have in revelation 21 is a Chalcedony now
I've heard people say weird stuff when they get to this where they're like, you know, Chalcedon why?
You know, it's a Chalcedony. It's a noun
it's a crypto crystalline form of silica composed of very fine integrase of quartz and
Maganite these are both silica minerals, but they differ in that quartz has a trigonal crystal structure
Why while Maganite is monoclinic Chalcedony standard chemical structure is you know?
I'm not gonna keep reading that but it says it has a waxy luster. It may be semi-transparent or
Translucent it can assume a wide range of colors
But those most commonly seen are white to gray grayish to bluish or a shade of brown ranging from pale to nearly black
the color of Chalcedony so commercially is often enhanced by dying or
Heating a lot of Chalcedony stones when you look at it. It has kind of a light
Lavender tone or look to them
So I kind of mix the several different colors because it's kind of an interesting different shade that you would see
But in Revelation 21 19 we see the foundations of the wall of the city
We're garnished with all manner of precious stones the first foundation of Jasper the second a sapphire the third a Chalcedony
The fourth and emerald so this wall has got to be pretty interesting looking when you start picturing all these different stones lined up as
All the different foundations that we have through it go go to Daniel chapter 8 Daniel chapter 8
So kind of just dancing around we're looking at lots of different words
We're kind of going in an alphabetical order
Now if you ask James White how to pronounce this word he would say choler, but that is wrong, okay, this is
Collar just like you'd think of like a collar on your shirt collar is how you'd pronounce this word
And it's you know a pretty common word when you think about babies because a lot of babies will have what's known as
Choleric and what is choleric when you think about choleric is they're upset they're agitated
They're fussy because they're in a lot of pain and the word collar just simply means anger
you know in some kind of form or fashion and we see in Daniel chapter number 8 verse 7 and
I saw him come close in the ram and he was moved with collar against him and
Smote the ram and break his two horns and there was no power in the ram to stand before him
But he cast him down to the ground and stamped upon him and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand
So we see it says that he was moved with collar against him. He wasn't you know, happy he was angry at him
Okay, look at verse chapter 11 and we see the number 11. We'll see again the same
Context and Daniel chapter 11 verse 11
It says in the king of the south shall be moved with collar and shall come forth and fight with him
Even with the king of the north and he shall set forth a great multitude
But the multitude should be given his hand now obviously if we just look the context kind of give us some semblance
For these words. I mean if you're taking someone and stamping them on the ground and you're fighting with them
What kind of emotion do you think that person probably has towards them probably anger, right?
So we're letting still the context of the Bible to find these words, but it's nice to just look them up
Go good back to Revelation 21. I want to find another word there that we had
Now the interesting thing about some of these words is
In fact the first video I've ever watched of Pastor Steven Anderson my see my ascending pastor
I was going through YouTube and
I was looking at videos on the King James Bible and I come across James White and
Sam Gipp and they were always like in these feuds online
They were always kind of debating one another and going back and forth and James or I'm sorry Sam Gipp had
done some kind of a
Letter or something video against James White and then James White was responding
To Sam Gipp and then Pastor Anderson made a video in response to Sam or James White's response to Sam
It was like what?
You know, that's the first video I ever found of Pastor Anderson's and it was great because he was pointing out
How James White was making fun of the hard words in the King James Bible and he wouldn't he would mispronounce them
He would say instead of a you know a do he would say a dough and instead of saying, you know
Collar it's a choler and there's a lot of words like this and so, you know
He's trying to make fun of the King James Bible
but really what happened is just making fun of himself kind of an idiot and fool he was and the content was so good because
It's like a seven minute video
The filming is terrible. The video quality is awful, but the content is excellent and Pastor Anderson ends up quoting
Beowulf from memory to prove how the King James Bible is actually still written in modern English
It's not written in Middle English or even in Old English
Because if I was speaking in Old English you would have no idea what I was saying
I would have no idea what I was saying Middle English is very difficult to be understood
You can only barely understand some of it by reading it very slowly
So modern English is what the King James Bible is written in and even though some of these words are things that we're not very familiar
with
I'm sure if we just dropped open a dictionary there'd be a lot of words that we're not familiar with
That's not because it's not a different language
It's just because we as people don't read very much and we don't know the Bible very much
This next word I had is chrysolite
Chrysolite is found here also in that building of the foundation of the wall
It says in verse 20 the fifth sardonyx the sixth sardius the seventh chrysolite the eighth barrel the ninth the topaz the tenth
chrysoprasis the 11th adjacent the 12th and amethyst so we have another the chrysolite the chrysolite is
Often known as a peridot maybe you've heard a peridot or a peridot stone also called precious olivine
gem quality
Transparent green olivine and the forsterite the yay light series. It says it has an olivine has been valued for centuries
It says in Egypt and the Red Sea
also
Very large crystals are found in the Mogok district of Burma peridots from the United States are seldom larger than two carats
It says the yellow green peridot has been called chrysolite
It says the golden stone in Greek
So, you know, it could actually have a little bit more of a light a yellow tint as far as what we have in our Bible
But chrysolite is generally known as peridot in the Bible
So when we get done to the series, maybe we can draw us a wall, right?
Go to first sandwich 25 first sandwich 25. I
Want to get through just a couple more this evening
Now
This next one is
The word is a churro a churro that kind of sounds like, you know something you could eat. That's like a churro
the churro is not something you want to eat all right, what's a churro a
Churro as a noun is an impolite or a mean-spirited person
You're a mean one
Mr. Grinch
You really are
Renille
That's that's that's a churro, right? Why is the Grinch known as a
churro, you know, he's he's as bad as a
Bad as bad banana and a greasy black, you know peel right you want to touch him?
But what is a churro a churro also could be used in a adjective sense a churlish person
Which is synonym would be a miser now miser is also another word that some people might not be familiar with
But what is a miser? It's a Jew. No, I'm just kidding. A
Miser is a person who holds wealth and spends as little money as possible
That's a churro. Okay, so, you know, that's what a churro would be and we have a churro in the Bible first
See, I'm at 25 look at verse 2 and there was a man in Mahon whose possessions were in Carmel and the man was very great
And he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel
Now the name of the man was Nabal and the name was wife Abigail and she was a woman of good
understanding and a beautiful countenance
But the man was churlish and evil in his doings and he was of the house of Caleb now in this context
Since we know the definition makes sense, but I don't know in this immediate context you would you would be like churlish
What does that really mean?
It means that he's someone that's gonna hoard wealth and it's not willing to spend money
Okay, now that's gonna make sense when you start reading the rest of this passage because what happens
David comes on to Nabal and he asks them for some of his goods for his men for some of the
Lambs or some food and Nabal refuses him
He says who is David, you know, who is this guy coming in here? And then David wants to kill him
Why because he's very churlish
Now go to Isaiah chapter number 32 Isaiah chapter 32. We'll find another place
Being a churlish person is wicked is what the Bible teaches
We ought not be churlish people a churlish person or a churla is one that's not willing to share his wealth with others
He's the true Grinch. What is the Grinch the Grinch doesn't like that? Anybody's having any fun
The the Grinch doesn't like that. Anybody's having any joy. So he goes and steals all everybody's Christmas presents, right?
He just hates joy. He's an evil wicked person
He doesn't want to share and now at the end supposedly gains a heart and whatever changes
Unfortunately the story for Nabal's worse because the Bible says that his heart died within him
And became a stone, you know what that is reprobate
Nabal's are like first, you know experience of like a real reprobate or we get to see exactly what happens in his heart and
Bible says that his heart died within him and then later it says that he died ten days later
Meaning what it was a spiritual death
There's that second death that people talk about and Abigail still married to the guy she curses him to his face
But you know, he ends up dying and then she gets to marry David. So it works out for her
Isaiah chapter 32 look at verse 1 behold a king shall reign in righteousness and princes shall rule in judgment
verse 5
So it says the vile person shall be no more called liberal nor the churral said to be
Bountiful now when we use some of these terms when we think of like Fox News Baptist
They don't understand this verse because they hear liberal and they think negative. Okay, and
Obviously I think of negative too, but a liberal person according the Bible someone that's generous
Someone that's kind and willing to freely give things and in context of Isaiah 32
There's gonna be a point time when someone's raining in righteousness and no longer is up gonna be down
No longer is evil gonna be called good and good called evil. It's gonna actually be a time where
Righteousness is restored. Okay
So no longer is a vile person gonna be called the generous person and no longer is the person that's a miser
The person that's a Jew today the person that's not gonna give any well
That's just an evil wicked person is gonna be called bountiful
Why because the evil wicked person is not going to be bountiful and the reign of Christ when Christ is reigning and
We as God's people ought not be churlish interaction. We had not hoard up all our wealth. It's all gonna burn up
You might as well give as much of it as ways you can before you die because otherwise
You're just hoarding up for somebody you don't even know
Look at verse 7 the instruments also of the of the churral are evil
He deviseth wicked devices and destroy the poor with lying words
Even when the needy speaketh, right?
So notice this type of person he'll just make up lies to trick poor people and try to confuse them and try to destroy them
Go view the first Samuel chapter 6 first Samuel chapter number 6
Now
This word found our Bible coffer when I think of coffer
I don't know why I just thought like a coffin but that's not really what it is
It's a little bit different a coffer is a treasure chest or a strong box
Now interesting in first Samuel chapter 6 the context is the Philistines stole the Ark of the Covenant
they start stole the Ark of the Lord and they want to return it because they're getting emirates in their secret parts and
They defy decide to make five golden mice to return back under the children
This was a trespass offering to the Lord
But instead of just throwing the mice on the cart, they decide to put it in a coffer look at verse number seven
now therefore make a new card and take two milts kind on which there hath come no yoke and tie the kind of the card and
bring their calves home from them and take the Ark of the Lord and lay it upon the card and
Put the jewels of gold
Which you return him for a trespass offering in a coffer by the side thereof and send it away that it may go
verse 11 also says and they laid the Ark of the Lord upon the cart and the coffer with the mice of gold and the
Images of their emeralds now not only they make images of mice. They made images of their emeralds. That was weird. Okay, I don't know
I don't know if you can explain that to me. I'd love to know but later go to chapter number eight
Chapter number eight, we don't have to go far go to our next word
We're almost finished for the evening. I appreciate your
patience here
Chapter number eight look at verse number 13. Next word we have is confectionaries
Now these are great people they should you know, we should love these people what's a confectionary a
Confectionary is a candy maker a dessert maker or makes fancy dishes. I love these people. I love candy
I just have to admit like I'm a candy addict
I like all kinds of candy says in first Samuel chapter 8 verse 13 and he will take your daughters to be
confectionaries and to be cooks and to be bakers now the context of this is that King Samuel is
Saying what happens when he becomes King what's gonna happen when you anoint a king over you?
Well, he's gonna take your women and he's gonna make what confectionaries out of them and cooks out of them and you know
Baker's out of them. Oh what they could have been doing at home, right?
So, you know women if you really want to kick it up, you could be a confectionary at home
All right, go to first Kings chapter 7. We only have two more now and I'll finish this evening
Now
The next word we have is a coping a
Coping a coping is a noun. It's a sloping top of a brick stone wall
So basically the coping would be this is like a brick wall
If you can imagine the coping is the top portion of that that's a little bit slanted
So that when water comes it would you know come off of this wall
It wouldn't damage the wall
If you didn't have a top like this the top of the wall would slowly deteriorate from water erosion and other problems
So they put a coping at the top of the building
Look at first Kings chapter 7 verse 8 and his house where he dwelt
Had another court with the within the porch which was the of the like work Solomon made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter
Whom he had taken to wife like under his porch all these were of costly stones
according to the measures of huge stones sawed with saws within and without
even from the foundation under the coping and
So on the outside toward the great court
So he's saying hey from the bottom to the top right from the foundation all the way to the coping is
Is basically what he's trying to describe here and even within and without sometimes you have to understand the word without just means outside
Okay, that's what without typically means in the Bible good Isaiah chapter 3 the last place we'll have return
What's the point of this sermon like this well
It's to take away their approach of the King James Bible a lot of these words
You might have already kind of known or at least from the context you had kind of an idea of what they mean
But if we can just go through and understand all the quote-unquote hard words in the King James Bible
Now the sudden what's your excuse to not reason not read it?
And
You know they say all the King James is really hard to read it. Well. I don't have a problem
Does that make me really smart?
Obviously they wouldn't say that okay
Here's the next one the last one we're gonna have ABC's
crisping pins crisping pins now
This one is only mentioned one time and there's not any context really to give you an exact idea of what it means
But I'm gonna give you my idea it says in Isaiah chapter 3 verse 22 the changeable suits of a parable of
Apparel and the mantels and the wimples and the crisping pins now
If I look up online what are crisping pins a lot of people will say well, it's a purse
but
Really, where do they get the word purse? Well? This is how they get the word purse. They go back to the Hebrew
Okay, and then the modern versions change the Hebrew word into purse, but crisping pins is not a purse
okay, so it's most likely like a type of a curling pin or some type of a thing that you would put in your hair to
Keep it arrayed in a particular fashion
So I have a couple what I think are crisping pins here
They're fancy ornaments or something that a woman would decorate her hair or hold it in a particular way
What's the point of this past?
Well the point of this passage is it's just a
Crisping pin would be something that a woman decorates herself and is very attractive and in Isaiah chapter 3 the Bible
You know God is warning the children of Israel that God is gonna take away those things from them
He's gonna take away all the beauty and the decorations from them because of how wicked and how sinful that they are
So, you know, I hope that that kind of helped give you some idea of some words in the Bible
Hope you learn a new word here and there and I like learning words in the Bible
I would encourage you that if you if you find a word in your Bible and you don't know what it means
Look it up in dictionary
Look it up right away and then we'll go back to the portion of the scripture
They were looking and see does that make sense? Does that fit the context?
Is that what the Bible is saying and what will happen is if you do that a couple times through the Bible you end up
Realizing that doesn't happen anymore
You'll slowly start realize you'll start learning things, you know, the Bible talks about learning line upon line
Precept upon precept here a little there a little so it learning takes time
It's something that we should you know be patient with and we should teach our killed our children the same type of an attitude
We don't know something go and look it up. Let's learn it
Let's see how to grow because a wise man will hear he will increase and learning why so we can understand and know the Bible
Thank you father so much for your word. Thank you for giving us a perfect Bible that we could study and to
Grow and to learn I pray that you just help every single one of us learn the Bible better and that
We could learn even more words and that by understanding the words in the Bible
We could have greater spiritual truths and understanding in Jesus name