Glossary to 40 Days of Repentance and Personal Change:
ADULTERY
Strong’s G3430: adultery
from G3431: to commit adultery; have unlawful intercourse with another’s wife; a Hebrew idiom (the word used of those who at a woman’s solicitation are drawn away to idolatry)
ANGER
Strong’s G3709: anger, the natural disposition, temper, character; movement or agitation of the soul, impulse, desire, any violent emotion, but esp. anger; anger, wrath indignation; anger exhibited in punishment, hence used for punishment itself.
ARGUMENTS
Strong’s G3055: to contend about words; to wrangle about empty and trifling matters
BACKBITINGS
Strong’s G2636: defamation, evil speaking
BACKBITER
Strong’s G2647: a defamer or evil speaker
BITTERNESS
Strong’s G4088: bitter gall; extreme wickedness; a bitter root, and so producing a bitter fruit; metaph. bitterness, bitter hatred
BLASPHEMY (Evil Speaking)
Strong’s G988: slander, detraction, speech injurious to another’s good name; impious and reproachful speech injurious to diving majesty
Do Not BOAST
Strong’s G2620: to glory against, to exult over, to boast one’s self to the injury (of a person or thing)
BOASTERS
Strong’s G213: an empty pretender, boaster
CLAMOR
Strong’s G2906: a crying, outcry, clamour
COARSE JESTING
Strong’s G2160: pleasantry, humour, facetiousness; in a bad sense, scurrility, ribaldry, low jesting
CONCEITS
Strong’s G5450: a puffing up of soul, loftiness, pride
CONTENTIONS
Strong’s G2054: contention, strife, wrangling
COVETOUSNESS
Covetousness Man
Strong’s G4124: greedy desire to have more, covetousness, avarice
Strong’s G4123: one eager to have more, esp. what belongs to others; greedy of gain, covetous
DECEIT
Strong’s G1388: craft, deceit, guile
DECEIVED
Strong’s G4105: to cause to stray, to lead astray, lead aside from the right way;
DECEPTIVE Words
Strong’s G4112: moulded, formed, as from clay, wax, or stone; feigned
DIVISIVE man (Heretic)
Strong’s G141: fitted or able to take or choose a thing; schismatic, factious, a follower of a false doctrine; heretic
DISOBEDIENT
Strong’s G545: impersuasible, not compliant, disobedient, contumacious
Obsessed with DISPUTES
Strong’s G3552: to be sick; metaph. of any ailment of the mind, to be taken with such an interest in a thing as amounts to a disease, to have a morbid fondness for
Strong’s G2214: a seeking; enquiry; a questioning, debate; a subject of questioning or debate, matter of controversy
DISSENSIONS
Strong’s G1370: dissension, division
DIVISIONS
Strong’s G4978: a rent; metaph. a division, dissension
from G4977: to cleave, cleave asunder, rend; to divide by rending; to split into factions, be divided
DRUNKENNESS (revelings)
Strong’s G2970: a revel, carousal
Strong’s G3178: intoxication; drunkenness
ENVY
Strong’s G5355: envy; for envy, i.e. prompted by envy;
Strong’s G4089: bitter; metaph. Harsh, virulent
Strong’s G2205: excitement of mind, ardour, fervour of spirit
EVIL DESIRE
Strong’s G2556: a bad nature; of a mode of thinking, feeling, acting; troublesome, injurious, pernicious, destructive, baneful
Strong’s G1939: desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lust
EVIL-MINDEDNESS
Strong’s G2550: bad character, depravity of heart and life; malignant subtlety, malicious craftiness
EVIL SPEAKING (Blasphemy)
Strong’s G988: slander, detraction, speech injurious, to another’s good name; impious and reproachful speech injurious to divine majesty
EVIL SUSPICIONS
Strong’s G4190: full of labours, annoyances, hardships; bad, of a bad nature or condition
Strong’s G5283: a surmising
from G5282: to suppose, surmise
FILTHINESS
Strong’s G151: obscenity, filthiness
FILTHY LANGUAGE
Strong’s G148: foul speaking, low and obscene speech
FOOLISH
Strong’s G453: not understood, unintelligible; not understanding, unwise, foolish
FOOLISH DISPUTES
Strong’s G3474: foolish; impious, godless
Strong’s G2214: a seeking; enquiry; a questioning, debate; a subject of questioning or debate, matter of controversy
FOOLISH TALKING
Strong’s G3473: foolish talking
from a compound of G3474: foolish; impious, godless
and G3004: to say, to speak
FORNICATION (Sexual Immorality)
Strong’s G4202: llicit sexual intercourse, adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, intercourse with animals, metaphorical the worship of idols
Strong’s G4205: a man who prostitutes his body to another’s lust for hire; a male prostitute; a man who indulges in unlawful sexual intercourse, a fornicator
GENEALOGIES
Strong’s G1076: a genealogy, a record of descent or lineage
GREEDINESS
Strong’s G4124: greedy desire to have more, covetousness, avarice
HATERS OF GOD
Strong’s G2319: hateful to God, exceptionally impious and wicked
HATEFUL
Strong’s G4767: hated, detestable
HATING one another
Strong’s G3404: to hate, pursue with hatred, detest; to be hated, detested
HATRED
Strong’s G2189: enmity, cause of enmity
from G2190: hated, odious, hateful; hostile, hating, and opposing another
HERESIES
Strong’s G139: act of taking, capture: e.g. storming a city; choosing, choice; that which is chosen; a body of men following their own tenets (sect or party); dissensions arising from diversity of opinions and aims.
HYPOCRISIES
Strong’s G5272: an answering; an answer; the acting of a stage player; dissimulation, hypocrisy
INDIGNATION
Strong’s G2372: passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again; glow ardour, the wine of passion, inflaming wine (which either drives the drinker mad or kills him with its strength)
IDOLATRY
IDOLATER
Strong’s G1495: the worship of false gods, idolatry; in the plural, the vices springing from idolatry and peculiar to it
Strong’s G1496: a worshipper of false gods, a idolater; a covetous man as a worshipper of Mammon
INVENTOR OF EVIL THINGS
Strong’s G2182: an inventor or contriver
Strong’s G2556: of a bad nature; of a mode of thinking, feeling, or acting; troublesome, injurious, pernicious, destructive, baneful
JEALOUSY
Strong’s G2205: excitement of mind, ardour, fervour of spirit; zeal, ardour in embracing, pursuing, defending anything; an envious and contentious rivalry, jealousy
LEWDNESS
Strong’s G2845: a place for lying down, resting, sleeping in; the marriage bed; cohabitation, whether lawful or unlawful
Strong’s G766: unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence
LIE
Strong’s G5574: to lie, to speak deliberate falsehoods; to deceive one by a lie, to lie to
LUSTS and PLEASURES
Strong’s G1939: desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lust
Strong’s G2237: pleasure; desires for pleasure
MALICE
Strong’s G2549: malignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure; wickedness, depravity; evil, trouble
MURDERS
Strong’s G5408: murder, slaughter
Overflow of WICKEDNESS
Strong’s G2549: malignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure; wickedness, depravity; evil, trouble
PASSION
Strong’s G3806: whatever befalls one, whether it be sad our joyous; a feeling which the mind suffers
PROUD
Strong’s G5187: to raise a smoke, to wrap in a mist; to blind with pride or conceit, to render foolish or stupid
Strong’s G5244: showing oneself above others, overtopping, conspicuous above others, pre-eminent; with an overweening estimate of one’s means or merits, despising others or even treating them with contempt; haughty
PUFFED UP
Strong’s G5448: to make natural, to cause a thing to pass into nature; to inflate, blow up, to cause to swell up; to puff up, make proud; to be puffed up, to bear one’s self loftily, be proud
REVELRY/REVELRIES
Strong’s G2970: a revel, carousal
SCHISM
Strong’s G4978: a rent; metaph. a division, dissension
SELFISH AMBITIONS (strife)
SELF SEEKING
Strong’s G2052: electioneering or intriguing for office; in the NT a courting distinction, a desire to put one’s self forward, a partisan and fractious spirit which does not distain low arts
SEXUAL IMMORALITY (Fornication)
Strong’s G4202: Illicit sexual intercourse, adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, intercourse with animals, metaphorical the worship of idols
SORCERY (witchcraft)
Strong’s G5331: the use or the administering of drugs; poisoning; sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it; metaph. The deceptions and seductions of idolatry
STRIFE
Strong’s G2054: contention, strife, wrangling
STRIVINGS about the law (Torah)
Strong’s G3163: a fight or combat
TUMULTS
Strong’s G181: instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion
UNCLEANNESS
UNCLEAN PERSON
Strong’s G167: physical; in a moral sense the impurity of lustful, luxurious, profligate living
Strong’s G169: not cleansed, unclean; in a ceremonial sense: that which must be abstained from according to the levitical law; in a moral sense: unclean in thought and life
UNDISCERNING
Strong’s G801: unintelligent, without understanding, stupid
UNFORGIVING
Strong’s G786: without a treaty or covenant; that cannot be persuaded to enter into a covenant, implacable
UNLOVING
Strong’s G794: without natural affection, unsociable (Rom 1:31 marg.), inhuman (2Ti. 3:3 RSV), unloving (2Ti. 3:3 NKJV)
UNMERCIFUL
Strong’s G415: without mercy, merciless
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
Strong’s G93: injustice, of a judge; unrighteousness of heart and life; a deed violating law and justice, act of unrighteousness
UNTRUSTWORTHY
Strong’s G802: uncompounded, simple; covenant breaking, faithless
USELESS WRANGLINGS
Strong’s G3859: constant contention, incessant wrangling
VAINGLORY
Strong’s G2754: vain glory, groundless, self esteem, empty pride; a vain opinion, error
VIOLENT
Strong’s G5197: an insolent man; one who uplifted with pride, either heaps insulting language upon others or does them some shameful act of wrong
WHISPERERINGS
Strong’s G5587: a whispering, i.e. secret slandering; of the magical murmuring of a charmer of snakes
WHISPERER
Strong’s G5588: a whisperer, secret slanderer, detractor
WICKEDNESS
Strong’s G4189: depravity, iniquity, wickedness; malice; evil purpose and desires
(OUTBURSTS OF) WRATH
Strong’s G2372: passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again; glow ardour, the wine of passion, inflaming wine (which either drives the drinker mad or kills him with its strength)
