Bible Word Meanings
Bible Word Meanings
What does that word actually mean? Each page below takes one question and answers it plainly — the everyday sense, the Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic behind it, the verses where it appears, and how the Father’s Heart Bible renders it, quoted word for word and linked into the chapter so you can read and listen free.
Why this Bible says “our Father” instead of “God”
The translation decision behind John 3:16 — what changed, what did not, and why every choice is footnoted.
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What does “begotten” mean in the Bible?
The old English word behind the Greek monogenēs — and why this Bible says “his only Son.”
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What does “hallowed be thy name” mean?
The first petition of the Lord’s Prayer — and whose name Jesus was actually asking us to honour.
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What does “Abba, Father” mean in the Bible?
The Aramaic word Jesus used in Gethsemane, and why Paul sets it against slavery and fear.
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Questions & answers
About these pages
- Why do Bible words need explaining at all?
- Because English has moved. Words like begotten, hallowed, and iniquity were ordinary speech when the King James Version was made, and have since narrowed or fallen out of use — so a reader today meets them only in Scripture and has to stop. Each page here gives the plain meaning, the original Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic behind it, and the verses where it appears.
- How does the Father’s Heart Bible decide how to translate a word?
- By asking which English wording carries the original best for a reader today — and, where the text reveals God in His fatherly relationship to His people, letting that be visible rather than flattening it to a generic word. Distinctive renderings carry footnotes in the text, so any reader can see what was decided and why. See why this Bible says “our Father” instead of “God”.
- Does the Father’s Heart Bible change what the Bible says?
- No. Every distinctive rendering stands where the passage already carries that sense, and can be checked in context. All translation involves choosing which English words carry the original — older Bibles render the divine name as “the LORD” in small capitals, itself a substitution most readers never notice. What FHB does differently is footnote its choices so they are traceable.
- Where can I read these verses in full?
- Every verse quoted on these pages links into the full chapter in the Father’s Heart Bible, free at fathersheartbible.com/read — all 66 books, with verse-by-verse audio in English.
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