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14 entries tagged Greek · 14 terms.

Dictionary

Autourgia

From the classical Greek αὐτουργία, the workman's discipline of doing the work with his own hands, the craft that travels because it is inside the workman, not in his tools.

Diakonia

Greek for service or ministry; in the New Testament the same word covers both practical hands-on service (such as serving tables) and the ministry of the word, with the difference between the two left to spiritual discernment rather than to status.

Dorean

Greek for 'as a gift, freely, without cost'; in Matthew 10:8 Jesus uses it twice in the same sentence to bind the receipt of grace to the giving of grace, forbidding the recipient to put a price on what was never priced when it was given.

Epitropos

Greek for a steward, guardian, or agent entrusted with another's authority who must act on the owner's behalf and give an account for how that authority was used.

Homologia

Greek for confession or acknowledgment, literally to speak the same word; in the New Testament it is the public act of saying out loud what one already believes in private, with the cost of being heard part of what makes the saying real.

Hupomone

Greek for patient endurance: the steadfast continuance to remain under a burden and finish what you began, rather than the mere passing of time.

Hypomone

Greek for endurance or steadfast 'remaining-under': the capacity to stay under a heavy, slow, or contested load without being moved out from under it, until the work is finished.

Koinonia

Greek for communion, fellowship, or participation; in the New Testament the word the church uses for the real sharing that joins believers to Christ and to one another through the Eucharist, the Spirit, and common life.

Makrothumia

Greek for patience or forbearance, literally a 'long temper': the deliberate withholding of a judgment or punishment one has the power to inflict, held open as room for repentance.

Oikonomia

Greek for household management; the New Testament word for stewardship of what is held in trust, where the steward is judged not by how much he amassed but by how faithfully he accounted for what was given.

Perichoresis

A Greek theological term for the mutual indwelling of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, naming the doctrine that the persons of the Trinity exist in such complete communion that the life of each is the life of the other two.

Philoxenia

Greek for love of the stranger; the New Testament's word for the discipline of receiving a person you did not choose, treated by Christ and the early church as a load-bearing virtue rather than a social courtesy.

Phragmos

Greek for hedge, fence, or partition wall, used in Scripture to name the protective boundary that surrounds something valuable or contested.

Psephizo

Greek for to count or calculate, literally to reckon with pebbles; the verb Jesus uses in Luke 14:28 for counting the cost of a tower before laying its foundation.