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Words that matter

Key words, traced through the original languages and every translation we hold.

λόγος · logosGreek for word, speech, account and reason. Heraclitus used it for the order running through all things; John’… · 2,342 uses μετάνοια · metanoiaLiterally a change of mind, a turning-around of one’s thinking. Latin translators chose paenitentia, “penance”… · 66 uses νῆψις · nēpsisSober watchfulness: the alert, clear attention the desert monks and the Philokalia put at the center of prayer… · 16 uses ἄνωθεν · anōthenIt can mean both “again” and “from above”. Nicodemus hears “born again”; Jesus may mean “born from above”. Tra… · 38 uses אֶהְיֶה · ehyeh“I will be” or “I am”: God’s answer to Moses at the burning bush, ehyeh asher ehyeh. The Greek Septuagint made… · 0 uses 道 · dàoThe Way: a road, a method, and the nameless source of all things. Laozi opens by saying the dao that can be sp… · 96 uses