Greek Word Quotes

#1. The Greek word used to translate the Aramaic word for meekness, which Jesus used in the Prophetic Blessing, was the word used for an animal that had been tamed and brought under the control of the bit and reins of its master. Meekness is power under control!

John Hagee

#2. The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.

Jim Hightower

#3. The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.

Selwyn Hughes

#4. The Greek word for abide used in John 8:31-32 and John 15:4-5 is the same word that's used for living in a house. The idea is that we don't just visit the Word for 10 minutes a day. We live in the Word. Meditate on it. Chew on it as we walk through the day.

Barb Raveling

#5. Wisdom is referred to as "she" - or even as "Lady Wisdom" - because the Greek word for wisdom is feminine);

Bart D. Ehrman

#6. Christ comes from the Greek word christos, which means "anointed." It corresponds to the Hebrew word translated "messiah." When Jesus is called

R.C. Sproul

#7. The page on which I wrote is the second page in section 19 of the Doctrine and Covenants, in the old edition of the triple combination. On the bottom of the page, in capital letters, is written the word REPENTANCE. And then an arrow leads to a notation that reads: Greek word. To have a new mind.

Henry B. Eyring

#8. Give all your worries to him, because he cares about you" (1 Pet. 5:7). (The German word for worry means "to strangle." The Greek word means "to divide the mind." Both are accurate. Worry is a noose on the neck and a distraction of the mind, neither of which is befitting for joy.)

Max Lucado

#9. The Greek word for "thanks" is the verb of the Greek noun for grace! Giving thanks is a spontaneous outflow of seeing that grace which was given to you in Christ Jesus.

Rudi Louw

#10. I dislike the word mythology because of its secondary definition meaning "something untrue." Myth is a Greek word that simply means "story," and mythologies are collections of ancient stories explaining the order of the universe or a society's ideals and customs.

Alaric Albertsson

#11. Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.

William Tyndale

#12. Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#13. The Greek word for box is kouti which also means stupid.

Lucas Samaras

#14. A lover of men is very nearly the opposite of a philanthropist; indeed the pedantry of the Greek word carries something like a satire on itself. A philanthropist may be said to love anthropoids. But as St. Francis did not love humanity but men, so he did not love Christianity but Christ.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. Words travel, because the word arctic comes from arktos, Greek for bear. Cancer comes from the Greek word for crab, karkinos. Memory, or one of its locations in the brain, the hippocampus, means seahorse. A bestiary is buried in our language.

Rebecca Solnit

#16. The Greek word for "rooster" is built from combined parts that mean "getter out of bed".

J.C. McKeown

#17. (It is interesting that the words "cosmos" and "cosmetic" have the same root, the Greek word for "adornment" or "arrangement.")

Jim Holt

#18. The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject.

Gladys Pyle

#19. The word poetry comes from the Greek word poiesis which just means "a making". So if you've made it, it's poetry. Even if it's breakfast.

Benedict Smith

#20. The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

Gilbert Murray

#21. Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.

Terence McKenna

#22. The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification, 'OT Pseudepigrapha,' is a label that scholars have given to these writings.

Craig A. Evans

#23. Apologetics comes from the Greek word apologia, which means a defense, as in a court of law. Christian apologetics involves making a case for the truth of the Christian faith.

William Lane Craig

#24. The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

Milan Kundera

#25. The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.

Richard Leider

#26. Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word ... which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

Tim Sandlin

#27. Into the depths of Scripture or researched a single Greek word. They simply taught what they knew. I don't know any other

Beth Moore

#28. Is this narcissism? Solipsism? Idiocy (from the Greek word idios, for self)? Would Turing acknowledge it as a proof of human behavior? Well, perhaps. They drove Turing to suicide too.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#29. There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.

John Assaraf

#30. Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

Jon Gordon

#31. [T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive ... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

Peter Drucker

#32. Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word to train.

Gary Chapman

#33. Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

Carl Sagan

#34. How does the living organism avoid decay? The obvious answer is: By eating, drinking, breathing and (in the case of plants) assimilating. The technical term is metabolism. The Greek word () means change or exchange. Exchange of what?

Erwin Schrodinger

#35. The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps even, somewhat against grammar, "acquirable knowledge," that is, "learnable knowledge," that is, "knowledge acquirable by learning."

Salomon Bochner

#36. Guy thought of the Greek word agon, wasn't it at once an athletic contest and a style of suffering, an agony?

Edmund White

#37. The word animal is a derivative of the Greek word anima, which also means soul.

Gunther Hauk

#38. Insomnia, from the Greek word meaning I can't fucking sleep!

Billy Crystal

#39. The Egyptians of 4000 B.C. believed that the goddess Isis, wife of Osiris, taught them how to grow olives. The Greeks have a similar legend. But the Hebrew word for olive, zait, is probably older than the Greek word, elaia, and is thought to refer to Said in the Nile Delta.

Mark Kurlansky

#40. Nor was there a Greek word for "incest." The Ptolemies carried the practice to an extreme. Of the fifteen or so family marriages, at least ten were full brother-sister unions.

Stacy Schiff

#41. Hysteria derives from the Greek word for "uterus," and the extreme emotional state it denotes was once thought to be due to a wandering womb; men were by definition

Rebecca Solnit

#42. The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.

Jane Garmey

#43. In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one.

Peter Straub

#44. The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom.

Dave Barry

#45. Do you know my dog's name?
[ ... ]
"It is from an ancient word, kerberos. It means 'spotted.'"
I blinked. "You're a genuine Greek god. You're the Lord of the Underworld. And ... you named your dog *Spot*?

Jim Butcher

#46. The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#47. Pharmakon means drug, but as Jacques Derrida and others have pointed out, the word in Greek famously refuses to designate whether poison or cure. It holds both in the bowl.

Maggie Nelson

#48. Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

Edith Hamilton

#49. The English word "coral" also comes from Greek, meaning "what becomes hard in the hand," "the maiden or nymph of the sea," or "the heart of the sea.

Eric H. Borneman

#50. Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be.

Homer

#51. Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

C.P. Scott

#52. The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

Marianne Williamson

#53. The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.

Louis Pasteur

#54. The word Gospel is from the Anglo-Saxon godspell, meaning "good news." Ultimately the word comes from the Greek euangelion, also meaning "good news." Gospel can mean the good news preached by Jesus, or the good news preached about Jesus. These two meanings are the ones found in the Bible.

Anonymous

#55. Oh, you're in television! That's interesting. No, I mean, the word television is interesting. It's a hybrid, you see: tele- comes from the greek, and -vision comes from the latin. It should have been either "telerama", or "procolvision".

Graham Chapman

#56. Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.

Peggy Noonan

#57. Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.

Ann Brashares

#58. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.

Donna Tartt

#59. In ancient Greek, the word for the highest degree of human happiness is eudaimonia, which basically means "well-daemoned" - that is, nicely taken care of by some external divine creative spirit guide.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#60. Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

George Bernard Shaw

#61. If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the pattern of grease left on a paper plate by broasted potatoes. But it would be a long word.

William Gibson

#62. Politics. The word is taken from the Ancient Greek. "Poly" means "many." And ticks are tiny, bloodsucking insects.

Michael Dobbs

#63. The Greek meaning of the word "blessed" is "supreme happiness." [see Matthew 5:3-5]

Eric Ludy

#64. Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.'

Daniel D. Palmer

#65. Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

George Will

#66. The gospels claim that on either side of Jesus hung men who in Greek are called lestai, a word often rendered into English as "thieves" but which actually means "bandits" and was the most common Roman designation for an insurrectionist or rebel.

Reza Aslan

#67. The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.

Jill Purce

#68. The Egyptian word Pir-em-us meant to them something of great vertical height. From this the Greek form Pyramis, or the plural Pyramides was formed.

H. Spencer Lewis

#69. Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#70. The original ancient Greek meaning of the word planet was simply wanderer,

Mike Brown

#71. Dancing is forbidden to Christians. Isn't it suggestive that the word ballet comes from the Greek ballo, which is also the origin of diabolos, "devil"?8

Peter J. Leithart

#72. You don't need to," he replied. "You're already saved." And he went on to tell me that the original Greek meaning of the word saved meant that a person was whole.

Jane Fonda

#73. While passing through an obscure nook of Notre Dame cathedral, Victor Hugo noticed the Greek work for fate carved in the stone. He imagined a tormented soul driven to engrave this word. From this seed sprang his monumental novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Alexander Steele

#74. Our word Tragedy comes from the greek, tragos-ode: "The song of the goat." Anybody who has ever heard a goat attempt to sing will know why.

Neil Gaiman

#75. A Greek will never say anything he hasn't already said a thousand times. Her husband Charles reprimanded me for not knowing the word. To Charles it was a mark of one's respect for other cultures to know the local terms of abuse and the words for sex acts and natural wastes.

Don DeLillo

#76. The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.

Marshall McLuhan

#77. I wouldn't expect you to know what the word honor means anyway. But when I make a pledge, I uphold it.

Amanda Carlson

#78. who speaks without moving his or her lips | related word: ventriloquism ****** LOG Origin: Greek Meaning: thought Examples: dialogue -- conversation or discussion | related word: lexically epilogue -- words that are

Manik Joshi

#79. The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.

Adoniram Judson

#80. The one, more Latin, more Roman, closer to eloquence than to the literal word, aims at a certain effect, at magic. The other, more Greek, more Hellenistic, seeks transparency flowing from the source.

Therese De Lisieux

#81. Faith, as James speaks about it, is not a system of belief, but a way of life that consciously draws its sustenance from God and lives for God and is energized by God himself. The word "dead" here and in 2:26 is the Greek adjective nekros, "dead, without life.

Ralph F. Wilson

#82. I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People coming in from abroad. There was a sense of community around ideas: a discourse and an adhesiveness which is my favorite word from [Walt] Whitman.

Anne Waldman

#83. The word 'silly' derives from the Greek 'selig' meaning 'blessed.' There is something sacred in being able to be silly.

Paul Pearsall

#84. The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#85. The detectives slide back on the digital timeline to the moment when Mendelssohn steps out into the snowstorm: there is something of the Greek epic about it, the old gray man with his walking stick, venturing out, into the snow, out of frame and away, like an ancient word stepping off a page.

Colum McCann

#86. Homosexual,' generally used in scientific works is of course a bastard word. 'Homogenic' has been suggested, as being from two roots, both Greek, i.e., 'homos,' same, and 'genos,' sex.

Edward Carpenter

#87. The word "lepton" derives from the Greek leptos, meaning "light" or "small.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#88. The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.

Francis Turretin

#89. Scholars tell us that there was no word in ancient Latin or Greek for "self" as it is understood in contemporary usage.

James Carroll

#90. There is so much information in one Hebrew word that translators are hard pressed to decide how much information should be cut. Since the first official translation (the Septuagint), Jewish translators advocated translating Hebrew (for outsiders) at the 'story' level.
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#91. The word photography comes from two ancient Greek words: photo for "light" and graph for "drawing." "Drawing with light" is a way of describing photography.

Vishal Diwan

#92. The word 'fairy' conjures up images of cute little creatures, so I don't use it. I use 'metahominids' from the Greek for 'other' and 'men.' They aren't cute - this is no fairy story.

F.R. Maher

#93. Amphibians - the word comes from the Greek meaning 'double life.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#94. Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

Ken Burns

#95. I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.

Alice Oswald

#96. There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.

Malcolm Lowry

#97. The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos, the word for home.

Robin Wall Kimmerer