How many of you enjoy sitting down and reading a dictionary?\u00a0 Dictionaries aren\u2019t usually considered especially exciting reading material.\u00a0 But while I was traveling recently, the guys I often work with had worked a bit without me, and one of the things they had done was go through a list of potential new words for the dictionary and approve the ones that were good and were to be added.\u00a0 When I got back they gave me a list of 47 words to add to the dictionary, along with their definitions.\u00a0 And as I read through that list of dictionary words, I was almost brought to tears.\u00a0 Ok, so that may be an exaggeration, but my heart leaped within me, thinking about how this very mundane task of adding words to a dictionary is so close to being holy.\u00a0 Reading through this list, so many of them stuck out as beautiful words that will, Lord willing, be gracing the pages of Scripture.\u00a0 And what a privilege to hold in my hands words that will eventually, Lord willing, have deep and holy meanings to these people who have just written them as words in a dictionary.\u00a0 Look at some of these words with me and think through passages from the Scriptures that you know with them in it; then just be amazed with me at how knowing these words will help the Scriptures come alive in My Language.\u00a0 Holy words, indeed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
1. kp\u0254f\u0254 – type of slingshot made out of woven fibers, with two strings joined to the two ends of the woven fiber.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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4. \u02bch\u0129\u0129 \u2013 ask for someone to pay you back the money (or something else) that they owe you.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
6. \u02bcbi\u025bs\u025b\u0303 \u2013 work against the good of a person or a group of people, either voluntarily or involuntarily.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
9. \u02bcs\u0169\u0169ti\u025b – ask someone to take your place in a fight.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
22. huul\u0254 – someone or something that is dead.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
32. \u0129\u0129ge \u2013 rooster\u02bcs crow.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
37. v\u025b\u025b cues\u0254 – sky\/heaven.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
39. \u02bcs\u0129\u025b\u0303ge \u2013 sing the praises of someone.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
41. \u0272\u00e3\u00e3ci\u025br\u0254 – promise.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
42. \u02bck\u025b\u025bge \u2013 scatter, spread out, disperse.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
46. wuruko \u2013 feeding trough of certain animals like dogs or cattle.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
47. Oc\u0254 – Lord, creator.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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