hey hey good-lookin Nicki here from crazy simple truth I'm so glad you're
here cuz we are gonna talk about a Bible study lexicon and what and the heck is
that so let me get my little notes out here because I've been I've been I've
been researching for you it's so confusing that concordant and the
dictionary and the lexicon it gets a little bit confusing so they took some
notes so I could tell you a little bit more about them so if you remember that
a concordance shows you where certain words of biblical words are so if you
looked up peace you would find all of the verses with the word peace okay but
a lexicon is very helpful in word studies and word studies are important
that's where you are studying the original language so the Bible was
written in three languages it was written in Hebrew in the Old Testament
and Greek in the New Testament and then there's some Aramaic which is kind of
like a type of language that the Israelites spoke that's kind of like
their own little thing I don't know how to explain it maybe you can explain in
the comments if you know okay so you have to study the original words you
have to learn how to do some word studies and if you want to learn how
you're gonna want to do the book of Ephesians study that we're doing
Thursday so it depends on this might post on Thursday I don't know when this
is gonna post I have so many videos set up to post and God just keeps giving me
new stuff and then people to give me ideas for stuff and so anyway it's gonna
be coming up the book of Ephesians study so be watching for it there's a free
packet on my website which is in the description box below and we are gonna
do word studies through the book of Ephesians okay so a word study helps you
have more like depth and clarity in the Word of God which is important reading
the Word of God is not enough we have to study it we have to study it and so you
word study is a really great way to do that so a lexicon is important in word
study so what it does is it gives us an English equivalent of a Greek or Hebrew
word okay so a King James Version or a new American Standard lexicon with a
strong concordance okay gives you detailed understanding of the language
used in the Bible now I know you're like what the heck did you just say Nicki cuz
I don't even know what you're talking about
don't worry about it because if you go through the book of Ephesians with me or
if you've watched some of my videos where I do the crazy simple truth Bible
study method then you will know what I am talking about when you use a lexicon
with a concordance and with different versions of the Bible it's not that hard
this is what my channel is all about crazy simple tips to get you into God's
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video because you won't learn something you can learn something so if you're
gonna look at the English equivalent of the Greek or Hebrew word okay word for
word if you're gonna look at that you can't get the whole picture by studying
one word okay you can't do that so it's gonna give you the meaning one word and
what is that gonna do I mean is that really gonna get God's Word into you
like really so you understand it can live by it so what we have to do is get
into the thought process of the author so we have to think about what were they
thinking when they wrote this like who are they riding to like what is the
purpose of what they were writing and you know who are they like what kind of
a writer were they things like that and that sounds complicated I know but hang
on hang on okay here's the thing about getting into
their thought process words don't have a meaning they have a semantic range of
meaning so words could mean you know you could use a word like I don't know a
good example I should think of these things ahead of time but I don't think
of them ahead of time so you could use a word that meant something to some person
and you meant it to be that way that that one person is reading it but then
the next person could look at it and what you wrote and be like I have no
idea what that has to do with this so you have to figure out who they're
writing to and who they are and why and that's not as hard as it seems okay so
something that you have to do in Bible study is know the context so you have to
know what's happening before the verses and after the verses so you need to
that's why it really it's a good thing to just study verse by verse so to get a
book in the Bible that you want to study and I've been doing these we did the
book of Mark was my first one and then we've went through the book of Acts and
now we're going through the book of Ephesians so every week you could go
through one of these studies with me and I am so not an expert let me tell you
I'm not I'm learning just like you but I you know I feel like God's been teaching
me things along the way I'm not perfect some of you know so much more than I do
but God's called me to do this so here I am Here I am
something about a Bible lexicon that you need to know is that if it feels really
intimidating a concordance and a Bible lexicon and all of those things if they
feel really intimidating um the best thing you can do is just look at
different versions of the Bible so if you look at different versions it's
almost like looking at a thesaurus so if you're writing something and you want to
come up with another word for hot okay you may look in at the source and you
may see that it says you know warm to the touch or you know I don't know I
don't know I don't have something prepared for that either so there you go
you know what I'm talking about you you would see different words that mean the
same thing that you could use in that circumstance and sometimes those
different words make it stick better in your mind so a lexicon is kind of doing
that what it's doing is it's giving you the original word that was used and what
it means and then we're looking at the translation we're using and we're like
well it makes more sense what they used or it makes more sense what the King
James Version has or it makes more sense what the Christian Standard Bible
version has so all of our brains are different we are also different
that's why there's not one translation of the Bible that's good for everyone we
all have our own that we understand the best and I have like ADHD and my mind
wanders so much and so it's a struggle for me and then I have fibromyalgia so I
have they call fiber a fog and like I forget what I'm talking about I mean
it's just a disaster my brain is a disaster so I have some struggles with
that and so that's why you know that's why I do this that's why I want to give
you those crazy simple tips because it does not have to be complicated really
all you need is a Bible app that that compares the translations because it's
doing the same thing as a lexicon but if you want to learn how to use the lexicon
with the concordance which I did a video for concordance earlier this week then
I'm gonna do that in my Ephesians Bible study and we are gonna go through a word
study of the book of Ephesians and verse by verse and we're I'm gonna show you
how I do it and how the different versions so like using it the source the
different versions of the Bible or what the original language was and what
you're reading and yours and comparing all of that you're helping it make sense
in your brain does that make sense okay so you're using those different
words and one of them is gonna go ah yeah that's like that okay I get it and
it's gonna feel right to you there's no right or wrong way to study the Bible
the only wrong thing you can do when studying the Bible really is not doing
it that's the wrong thing to do not doing it because reading the Bible is
not enough you have to study it to be able to apply it to your life to be able
to live the life that God is calling you to live you have to study his word and
in order to study it you have to get into it more than just reading it does
that make sense I hope so so we are going to use some different
tools to be able to go through this book of Ephesians but I think it's gonna be
really helpful and I'm super excited about it this is new to me so because I
have like a scattery brain I have never really like went through like a whole
book at one time I'll go through part of it and then I'll get bored don't go on
to something else or sometimes I'll just do like I'll just
flip the book of the Bible open and I'll just be like okay Holy Spirit
what do you want me to do today and I'll look it'll be like no I'm not feeling
that that's not it flip flip flip the pages now that's not it so this going
through a specific book with you is really good for me because I've never
really done that at an at-home study so I think it'll be good for you too and
I'm really excited about it and I hope you'll join me and I hope that I kind of
answered when Alexa Kahn is it really just tells you a word-for-word like
translation or definition or whatever from the English from the Greek or
Hebrew word to an English word and it is helpful sometimes and sometimes it's not
but it is a very helpful tool if you are using it with some of the other helpful
Bible study tools so there you go that's what a lexicon is and I do not have one
I use it online there are plenty of great apps or Bible study webpages that
have really good tools that you can use a lexicon and so I think probably the
next video in this series to teach you about these Bible study tools is going
to be about commentary so we're going to address on that too before we start the
Ephesians Bible studies so make sure you're watching for that and if you have
not watched the one about concordances or the different versions of the English
Bible then make sure you watch those two cuz those kind of all go along with this
and they're all preparing us for the Ephesians word study so I will see you
later you're beautiful God has a purpose and a plan for you and he made you so
perfectly and He loves you so much and he doesn't want you to worry if you're
doing Bible study right or wrong he just wants you to do it he just wants you to
do it and I want to help you do that so please consider subscribing if you
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can do it okay I'll see you later