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Ulrike Dweck
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"Well, not exactly," I respond. "In the Bible, sin means to violate God's law. Yes, it is true that the Greek word translated as 'sin,' hamartia, is a combination of 'not' and 'mark,' but that is not its meaning in the Bible."
Before getting to some word-study fallacies, a brief summary of how words "work" is helpful. In general, individual words have a range of meanings or overlapping meanings (a "semantic range"). When a word is used in a context, the speaker/listener usually knows intuitively what part of the range of meaning is being used.
Let us use modern English as an example. Love is an English word with quite a broad range of overlapping meanings, but once seen in context, the specific meaning is quite obvious. Hence, most understand the following sentence even though love has five slightly different meanings. "I love God, my wife, my daughter, the New York Yankees, and Chicken McNuggets." Another example: the noun key has several fairly defined meanings, one refers to a physical object (key in the door), another is a common metaphorical use (the key to victory), and another relates to music (the key of C). Rarely is one confused by these three options, although the depth of understanding of the more technical musical option would differ significantly between a pianist and me.
Therefore, a good word study will evaluate many contexts to determine the range of meanings and/or overlapping meanings available to the writer/ speaker during a specific time period. This is the function of a dictionary. A good interpreter then takes the available range of meanings for a word and applies this to the context to get the proper specific meaning of the word in that context.
In modern linguistics, etymology is the study of the history of the word with an emphasis on its origin. This study of a word's history often looks back through multiple languages. This is contrasted with the "meaning(s)" of a word, which is based on current usage. The etymological fallacy is to assume that the origin of a word is its true meaning. No, the true meaning of a word is its current usage. (The etymological fallacy is sometimes called the "root fallacy," which says that the root [origin] of a word is its true meaning.)
Consider the sentence, "I live in Charlotte, N.C., which is in Mecklenburg County." Virtually everyone reading this correctly understands the word county even though they do not know its etymology. Part of the etymology relates to French nobles or "counts" and the land they owned in feudal Europe. Knowing this is interesting, but it does not help a modern English reader better understand the word county. In fact, most speakers and readers of any language can communicate reasonably well even though they rarely know the etymology of any of the words they use.
In Greek, more than English, many words are a combination of two other words, but usually the etymological study of why and when these words were combined is completely lost on the New Testament writer. The Greek word ekklesia, which is usually translated as "church," is a combination of the words to call and out. However, scholarly Greek dictionaries do not give the definition of "called-out ones" for ekklesia because it is not being used that way during the time of the New Testament. Although it is theologically true that Christians have been called out from the sinful world to be the church, that truth is not derived from the word ekklesia. Similarly, the modern English word butterfly is clearly made up of the words butter and fly, but that does not help us understand the insect better.
The reverse etymological fallacy occurs when the later historical usage of a word is considered primary for determining the earlier meaning of that word. Of course, this does not make sense logically, but sometimes the manner in which a pastor explains a Greek word may encourage some in the congregation to fall into this trap.
For example, a pastor may explain that the Greek word for power in the New Testament is dynamis, and in the 1860s, Alfred Nobel named his invention "dynamite" based on the Greek word dynamis. This is true and interesting. However, this does not give the interpreter of the New Testament more insight into the meaning of dynamis in Scripture. In fact, one may wrongly assume that the "power of the Holy Spirit" (Rom. 15:13) must be explosive power like dynamite as opposed to constant power like electrical power.
Etymologies are occasionally helpful. Sometimes the combination of two Greek words does directly relate to the current meaning. The Greek word ekballō, which is often translated as "to cast out" (for example, Matt. 9:33), is a combination of to throw and out. A parallel English example might be grasslands, whose meaning is obvious because of the two words grass and lands. Please note that although the etymology and current meaning dovetail together and the etymology is useful, the meanings of ekballō ("to cast out") and grasslands are ultimately not based on etymology but on current usage.
Etymologies are also useful for the few situations, especially in the Old Testament, where there are not enough occurrences of a word to be sure of its meaning. Scholars look at cognate words in other languages (such as Ugaritic, Akkadian, and Aramaic) during multiple time periods to obtain informed guesses as to the meaning of a Hebrew word. This often is related to obscure plants and animals. For example, the Hebrew word tahash in Exodus 25:5 is translated as "badger" (KJV), "porpoise" (NASB), and "goat/dolphin/ dugong" (ESV). The technical arguments here relate to (1) the etymology of similar cognate words in Arabic and Akkadian and (2) the ancient Greek translation, the Septuagint, which interprets tahash as the color blue.
A common word-study fallacy is to assume that the broad semantic range of a word is being used in every specific instance of that word. That is, the totality of the semantic range is illegitimately transferred. Or to put it in laymen's terms, the same writer does not always use the same word in the same way. At some level this is obvious, but it is good to be reminded of it.
New Testament writers have a wonderfully developed understanding of Christian faith that includes the total trust of the Christian in the person and work of Christ. However, sometimes the Apostles use faith in a more truncated way to emphasize the set of doctrines about Christianity, as for example in "one Lord, one faith, one baptism" (Eph. 4:5) and "to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints" (Jude 3). This meaning of faith well parallels our modern expression "the Christian faith." Of course, Christian faith is more than a set of Christian doctrines, but knowing some basic doctrine about the Trinity, Christ, salvation, sin, and so on is a required aspect of Christian faith. The totality transfer fallacy is to assume that everything the Bible says about the Christian faith is being equally emphasized every time the word faith is being used.
With the illumination of the Spirit, most Christians read and interpret the Bible reasonably well. However, Christians can commit word-study fallacies and other errors. Lord willing, all of us will strive to reduce this tendency.
Cara any way you could make the word wall headers into a bigger alphabet? (like 8" x 8" maybe?) I would love to use this as my alphabet line since I just made brand new word wall headers. Just love your style! Let me know. I would absolutely be willing to pay for it too if you put it on tpt ? Thanks for considering!!
I would love a large version too, please. I am totally willing to pay so that I could have everything be cohesive. (Linking chart, personal word wall, word wall headers, and alphabet line) Please let me know if you would be willing to help!
Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and a FREEBIE from the packet! I can't wait to try it out. Word Wall has always been a problem for me. Love the idea, but have no idea where to put it except UP. It's a shame that school builders never ask teachers about classroom layouts. What a concept!
I love your ideas! I work hard to really use my word wall! I have my words printed on different color cardstock too. All of the first six week words are red and the second six week words are blue, etc. The kids have their own set of flashcards in their reading notebook that are the same too. I also keep my words on magnets so the kids can read them and take them as needed. After researching I also decided to make my word wall linear instead of A to M and then N to Z on the next line. It's a little tight, but hopefully the benefits with be worth it! : )
When subbing I've noticed that students can have conflicting rules in their head. Use the word wall and don't leave your seat and walk around room. When writing I encourage them to get up and look at the word wall or sight words or any other display to help their writing.
Sheri.
I am trying something new with my word wall this year. It is low for my Kinders to access. Each word is laminated and hot glued to a clothespin. Each letter has a ribbon staples under it that the words are attached to. We add our new words each Monday from the previous week. Then during writing the students are encouraged to get words they need help with off the wall to use and then return when they are finished with them. So far so good, keeping my fingers crossed for continued success as we keep adding more words. Love the name cards with pictures, I am going to have to do that.
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