{"id":11764,"date":"2021-12-05T15:52:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T19:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=11764"},"modified":"2021-12-05T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T19:55:22","slug":"thoughts-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=11764","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/forwhatsaiththescriptures.org\/2015\/04\/26\/jesus-hanged-on-a-tree\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why <\/a>English Bibles say <strong>Jesus hung on a tree?<\/strong> Someone at church brought up this question and I looked it up. It has to do with the English word \"tree\". The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/tree\" target=\"_blank\">Etymology of tree<\/a> means wood, or wooden structure, in Old\/Middle English. The archaic meaning also refers to gallows. And in Greek, the words used for Jesus' hanging tree is \u03be\u03c5\u0301\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd <em>xulon<\/em>. The Greek word used for the living tree is \u03b4\u03b5\u0301\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd <em>dendron<\/em>. \u03be\u03c5\u0301\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd means wood, the Chinese translation is correct. Modern English confuses people here. Greek word for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/megepayne.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/31\/why-is-the-cross-referred-to-as-a-tree-in-1-peter\/\" target=\"_blank\">cross is also different<\/a>: \u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c5\u03c1\u03bf\u0301\u03c2 <em>stauros<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why English Bibles say Jesus hung on a tree? Someone at church brought up this question and I looked it up. It has to do with the English word \"tree\". The Etymology of tree means wood, or wooden structure, in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=11764\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11768,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11764\/revisions\/11768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}