AgōnizomaiἀγωνίζομαιGreek
From agōn, a contest or struggle. To contend, to strive, to fight, to wrestle.
Greek Words That Preach, Volume 1, Endurance and Service, ch. 4, “Fight Forward”
Anchor1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 4:7
Edmerson Ministry Publications
A cumulative Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic index to the Teaching Series
92 words · 61 Greek · 27 Hebrew · 4 Aramaic · 233 passages
This index gathers into one place every Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic word treated across the Dr. John W. Edmerson Teaching Series. It exists for the preacher who has a text on his desk, a Sunday coming, and no time to work through a lexicon by himself.
Part One
Alphabetical by transliteration, whatever the language. Every definition is the one given in the chapter where the word is preached.
AgōnizomaiἀγωνίζομαιGreek
From agōn, a contest or struggle. To contend, to strive, to fight, to wrestle.
AnablepōἀναβλέπωGreek
From ana (up, again) and blepō (to look). To look up, and so to receive sight again.
AnapsuxisἀνάψυξιςGreek
From ana (again, back) and psuchō (to cool by blowing). A cool breath, a recovery of breath, a refreshing breeze sent from heaven into a stuffy room.
AnastasisἀνάστασιςGreek
From ana (up) and histēmi (to stand). A standing up, a raising up, a rising again.
AnavahעֲנָוָהHebrew
Humility, meekness, lowliness: strength submitted to God.
Spelled with an initial ayin. Rare Hebrew Words That Preach prints an aleph in its table of contents; the ayin form is correct.
AntistēmiἀνθίστημιGreek
From anti (against) and histēmi (to stand). To stand against, to set yourself in the way.
ApolutrōsisἀπολύτρωσιςGreek
From apo (away from) and lutron (ransom). The release effected by the payment of a ransom price: a buying back.
Avon / Peshaעָוֹן / פֶּשַׁעHebrew
Iniquity and transgression: the bent of the soul and the breach of the covenant, standing behind the English word sin.
AzavעָזַבHebrew
To abandon, to forsake, to desert, to leave behind. The pain not of death but of choice.
BasarבָּשָׂרHebrew
Flesh: the creaturely frailty of man before God, standing behind the New Testament use of sarx.
BoshבּוּשׁHebrew
To be put to shame, to be made to wither, to have your reputation stripped. The picture is a plant drying up from its roots.
CharaχαράGreek
Related to charis (grace) and chairō (to rejoice). Joy, and joy of a kind that grace supplies.
CharisχάριςGreek
Grace: gift, mercy, covenant love, and training power, not only unmerited favor.
CharismaχάρισμαGreek
From charis (grace). A gift of grace, an undeserved deposit from God; the concrete result of grace.
ChashaqחָשַׁקHebrew
To cling to, to set one's heart upon, to be deeply attached, to desire intensely.
ChemlahחֶמְלָהHebrew
Pity that moves rather than pity that watches: the mercy that takes hold of a man who cannot move himself.
Da'atדַּעַתHebrew
Intimate knowledge: knowing a person rather than knowing about them.
DabarדָּבָרHebrew
Word, matter, thing, event: in Hebrew a word that God speaks is a thing God does.
DiakoniaδιακονίαGreek
From diakoneō (to serve, to wait at table). The active service one renders to another.
DikaiosynēδικαιοσύνηGreek
Righteousness: God's standard of rightness, in the soul and in the street, not mere niceness.
DokimionδοκίμιονGreek
From dokimazō (to test, to prove, to approve through testing). The proof that comes out the other side of the trial.
DoxaδόξαGreek
From dokeō (to think, to seem). Originally opinion or reputation, redefined in Scripture to name the weighty, visible splendor of God Himself.
DunamaiδύναμαιGreek
The Greek verb of capacity. To be able, to have the power, to be capable.
EirēnēεἰρήνηGreek
Peace: wholeness, reconciliation, and God's order. The New Testament carrier of the Hebrew shalom.
EkkakeōἐκκακέωGreek
From ek (out) and kakos (bad, evil). To be wearied out into evil: to give in to discouragement, to faint at heart, to quit on the inside before quitting on the outside.
EkklēsiaἐκκλησίαGreek
An assembly, a congregation: in the Greek Old Testament, Israel gathered before God; in the New Testament, the assembly Jesus Himself builds and owns. Never a building.
Revised September 2026. The word is built from ek (out) and kaleō (to call), but usage shows it meant an assembly, even the town assembly and the crowd at Ephesus (Acts 19:32, 39, 41). “Called-out ones” is the root fallacy; see Looking Up God’s Word, ch. 8. Treated at length in the standalone study Ekklesia: The One Church the Lord Calls His Own.
Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthaniελωι ελωι λαμα σαβαχθανιAramaic
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me. From the cross the Lord lines out the psalm of the cross.
EmunahאֱמוּנָהHebrew
Firmness, steadiness, reliability, faithfulness, trustworthiness, faithful confidence.
EpainosἔπαινοςGreek
From epi (upon) and ainos (praise). Praise bestowed upon someone: commendation, approval, applause.
EphphathaεφφαθαAramaic
Be opened. Deaf ears opened and a loosed tongue, and behind it the question of hearing the Word rightly.
EpistrephōἐπιστρέφωGreek
From epi (toward) and strephō (to turn). To turn back, to return, to turn around toward something.
EucharisteōεὐχαριστέωGreek
From eu (well) and charizomai (to give freely). To receive a gift well, to acknowledge the giver with gratitude.
ExaireōἐξαιρέωGreek
From ex (out of) and haireō (to take, to seize). To take out, to snatch out, to pluck out.
GibborגִּבּוֹרHebrew
Mighty, strong, valiant, warrior-like: powerful in courage and action.
Go'elגֹּאֵלHebrew
Redeemer, kinsman-redeemer: the one who acts to reclaim, rescue, avenge, or restore family rights under covenant.
HamartiaἁμαρτίαGreek
Sin: missing the mark, bending the soul, breaking fellowship. More than a mistake.
HaptomaiἅπτομαιGreek
Middle voice of haptō. To touch, to take hold of, to fasten oneself to.
HesedחֶסֶדHebrew
Steadfast covenant love, loyal mercy, faithful kindness: love that keeps showing up.
HomologeōὁμολογέωGreek
From homos (same) and logos (word). To say the same thing: to agree out loud with what God has said.
HuperetēsὑπηρέτηςGreek
From hupo (under) and eressō (to row). An under-rower; by extension any subordinate or attendant who carries out the will of another.
Listed in the series assembly plan as Volume 1, chapter 6, but Perikeimai now stands in that slot. This chapter is presently unplaced.
HypomonēὑπομονήGreek
From hypo (under) and menō (to remain). To stay under: the endurance that does not walk out from under the weight.
KatapausisκατάπαυσιςGreek
From kata (down) and pauō (to cease). A settling down, a settled rest, a coming to rest after labor.
KatargeōκαταργέωGreek
From kata (down) and argeō (to be idle). To render inoperative, to put out of commission.
KatharizōκαθαρίζωGreek
From katharos (clean). To cleanse, to make clean, to purify.
KlēsisκλῆσιςGreek
From kaleō (to call, to summon). The act, fact, or state of being called.
KoinōniaκοινωνίαGreek
Shared life, shared burdens, shared mission in Christ. More than food in the fellowship hall.
KopiaōκοπιάωGreek
From kopos (labor, weariness). To labor to exhaustion, to toil, to grow weary from labor.
LatreuōλατρεύωGreek
From latris, a hired servant. To serve, and so to render the service that is worship.
LogosλόγοςGreek
The Word: God speaking, creating, commanding, and saving. More than letters on a page.
MakrothumeōμακροθυμέωGreek
From makros (long) and thumos (hot temper). To be long-tempered: to have a long fuse, to push the moment of anger far down the road.
MetanoiaμετάνοιαGreek
From meta (change) and nous (mind). A change of mind that produces a change of direction.
MeteōrizōμετεωρίζωGreek
To be lifted up in the air, suspended, hung between heaven and earth, tossed back and forth on every wind. The Bible's picture of anxiety.
MispadמִסְפֵּדHebrew
Wailing: the public, communal grief a people mourn together rather than alone.
NaphalנָפַלHebrew
To fall, to fall down, to collapse, to be cast down, or to prostrate oneself, as the context requires.
NaqamנָקָםHebrew
Vengeance: the settling of accounts that belongs to God and not to the street.
OikonomosοἰκονόμοςGreek
From oikos (household) and nemō (to manage). The manager of a household: the trusted servant entrusted with the master's estate.
PaliggenesiaπαλιγγενεσίαGreek
From palin (again) and genesis (origin, birth). A being born again, a new beginning: your story is not stuck where you left it.
PanopliaπανοπλίαGreek
From pan (all) and hoplon (weapon). The full armor, every piece of it.
ParaklētosπαράκλητοςGreek
From para (alongside) and kaleō (to call). One called alongside. Rendered Comforter in John 14 to 16 and Advocate in 1 John 2:1.
ParresiazomaiπαρρησιάζομαιGreek
From parrēsia, freedom of speech. Originally the freeborn citizen's right to speak openly in the assembly; in the New Testament, boldness in declaring the gospel.
PeithōπείθωGreek
To persuade, to convince, to be settled in one's convictions. The root from which pistis and pistos are derived.
PerikeimaiπερίκειμαιGreek
From peri (around) and keimai (to lie). To lie around, to be surrounded, encompassed, encircled.
PerisseuōπερισσεύωGreek
From perissos (abundant). To be in abundance, to overflow, to exceed, to have in surplus.
PhroureōφρουρέωGreek
From phrouros, a sentinel. To stand watch as a sentry, to guard, to garrison.
PistisπίστιςGreek
From peithō (to persuade). The inward conviction that what God has spoken is true and will be done.
ProorizōπροορίζωGreek
From pro (beforehand) and horizō (to set a boundary, to mark out a limit). To draw the horizon before the sun ever rises.
The chapter states plainly that the word does not mean God picked some and rejected others by raw decree.
ProskuneōπροσκυνέωGreek
From pros (toward) and kuneō (to kiss). To advance toward a superior and kiss the hand, the ground, or the hem of the garment.
QahalקָהָלHebrew
The assembly of Israel summoned before the LORD: the Old Testament background to ekklēsia.
QavahקָוָהHebrew
To wait, to hope, to look eagerly, to expect, to trust with endurance.
RacaρακαAramaic
Empty one, worthless one. The insult Jesus refused to translate, left standing in the text to name what contempt does to a brother.
RazonרָזוֹןHebrew
Leanness: the wasting of the soul that comes with getting what you asked for.
RhuomaiῥύομαιGreek
To drag out of danger, to rescue, to deliver. Related to eruō, to drag.
RuachרוּחַHebrew
Spirit, breath, wind, life-force: the movement of divine power, with the context deciding which sense stands.
SarxσάρξGreek
Flesh: human weakness and sinful desire, and the dependence on God that both expose. More than skin and bones.
ShalomשָׁלוֹםHebrew
God-given wholeness, soundness, welfare, safety, harmony, and peace. Not merely a quiet mood.
ShuvשׁוּבHebrew
To turn, to return, to come back to the right road. The Hebrew picture that stands behind the English word repentance.
SkirtaōσκιρτάωGreek
To leap, to spring forward, to jump with the energy of joy that cannot be contained inside the body.
SplanchnizomaiσπλαγχνίζομαιGreek
From splanchnon, the inward parts. To be moved in the gut: compassion felt in the body before it is spoken with the mouth.
StēkōστήκωGreek
A later Koine present formed from the perfect of histēmi (to stand). It pictures the man who has taken his stand and is standing there still.
SundoulosσύνδουλοςGreek
From sun (with) and doulos (slave). A fellow slave, one who serves the same master alongside you.
SunergosσυνεργόςGreek
From sun (together with) and ergon (work). A fellow worker, one who labors alongside another at a common task.
Talitha Cumiταλιθα κουμιAramaic
Little girl, arise. The tenderness and authority of Christ at a child's bedside, preserved untranslated and then interpreted for the reader.
TeleioōτελειόωGreek
From telos (end, goal). To bring to the goal, to carry through to completion.
TelosτέλοςGreek
End, goal, completion, consummation: the appointed finish toward which everything has been moving. Not mere cessation but the goal reached.
Tetelestai / Teleōτετέλεσται / τελέωGreek
It is finished: completion, payment, redemption, and the victory of Christ. The goal reached, not the clock run out.
TharseōθαρσέωGreek
To take courage, to be of good cheer. Not natural bravery but a courage spoken into the soul by another voice.
ThlipsisθλίψιςGreek
From thlibō (to press, to crush). A pressing, a pressure, a crushing weight.
Tsedek / Tsedaqahצֶדֶק / צְדָקָהHebrew
Righteousness, justice, right order, moral integrity, covenantal rightness before God and neighbor.
YadahיָדָהHebrew
To praise, give thanks, confess, acknowledge, and extend the hands in worshipful response.
YatomיָתוֹםHebrew
The fatherless, the orphan: the one God names as His own particular charge.
ZakarזָכַרHebrew
To remember, to call to mind, to act in covenant awareness. God's remembering is always followed by God's acting.
ZanahזָנָהHebrew
To play the harlot, to prostitute oneself. Used both for literal immorality and for Israel's spiritual unfaithfulness.
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Part Two
Canonical order. Find the passage on your desk, and the words beside it are the studies that open it.
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