Tag Archives: spanish
deuteronomy 7:13 and grammatical gender
If you ever took a Spanish class in high school, one of the things you will notice early on is that the language is more heavily gendered than English. Everything in Spanish is either male or female. The bed is female, the car is masculine, etc. The languages in which the Bible was written are [...]
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the most frequent ten thousand spanish words, in order
If you feel the need to brush up on basic Spanish vocabulary, this handy list could be useful. It’s yet another of the wonderful things brought to us by Wiktionary. These are the most common ten thousand words in spoken movie Spanish. Related Posts:Jottings on Genesis: faces, Spanish, animal marriage, gopher wood, and the [...]
cross-cultural experience and the idea of group prayer as performance
Group prayer is odd. As a group of people take turns saying their peace, one sometimes wonders just who is being addressed. Is the prayer to God, or is God merely a rhetorical device the speaker uses to talk to us fellow listeners indirectly? One friend of mine who participates in a Bible study group [...]
an odd coincidence
In Hebrew, the word אמה /ama/ means “(female) servant” while in Spanish ama means “mistress) (in the sense of the female equivalent of “master.” Fun stuff. Related Posts:Joshua, Elisha, and Jesus — God and Salvation at the TransfigurationTypos/Errors of Bullinger’s “The Companion Bible”Adam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 11 Chronicles 1:29 — Accents and [...]
another possible word coincidence
I see coincidences everywhere. This is part of why I love working out etymologies so much–it’s all about seeing some words that look similar, perhaps even barely similar, and working out that they have a common ancestor. (Don’t even start talking about biological evolution, now. This post ain’t even going there.) Related Posts:Jottings on Genesis: [...]
here’s to you, osu quechua guy
Occasionally when I walk to Portuguese class, a short little man walks by. He’s perhaps 5′ 3”, and he has that sturdy build that is so typical of tropical indigenous peoples of Central and South America. He smiles quickly and says hello to everyone. He wears jeans and a big bubble coat and carries a [...]
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