ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “lord” - mid-13c., laverd, loverd, from Old English hlaford "master of a household, ruler, feudal lord, superior; husband," also "God," 🕎 1 Corinthians 11:3 & Matthew 22;44-46 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “seed” - Middle English Figurative sense of "offspring, progeny, posterity," From late 14c. as "act or time of sowing." The meaning "semen, male fecundating fluid,” 🕎 Romans 1:3 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “enchantment” - c. 1300, "act of magic or witchcraft; use of magic," "magical spell; song, concert, chorus," from enchanter "bewitch, charm," ,cast cantare "to sing"
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “elect” - early 15c., "to choose for an office, position, or duty," from Latin electus, "to pick out, "to collect, gather." "those chosen by God" 🕎1 Peter 2:1-6 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “magic” - late 14c., magike, "art of influencing or predicting events & producing marvels using hidden natural forces," also "enchantment," from Latin magice "sorcery, magic,”
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “exotic” - 1590s, "belonging to another country,(16c.), from Greek exotikos "foreign," literally "from the outside," “outside" "unusual, strange" 🕎Acts 10;1;48 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “government” - late 14c., "act of governing or ruling;" “system by which a thing is governed" from Old French "control, direction, administration" 🕎Matthew 19:28 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “thug” - 1810, "member of a gang of murderers & robbers who strangled their victims," from thak "cheat, swindler," "cunning, fraudulent," 🕎Jeremiah 5;25-28 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “anointed” - late 14c., "smeared with oil," past-participle adjective from anoint (v.) The noun meaning "a consecrated one" (as in Lord's Anointed) 🕎2 Samuel 5;1-12 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “gay” - gay (adj.) late 14c., "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, carefree;" also "wanton, lewd, lascivious" (late 12c. as a surname, Philippus de Gay), from Old French gai "joyful, happy;
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “immortal” - late 14c., "deathless," from Latin immortalis "deathless, undying" (of gods), "imperishable, endless.”🕎1 Corinthians 15;50-53 & 1 Corinthians 15;44-54 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “rich” - Old English rice "strong, powerful; great, mighty; of high rank" (senses now obsolete), in later Old English "wealthy;" 🕎2 Corinthians 8:9 & Revelation 2:9 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “just” - late 14c., "morally upright, righteous in the eyes of God" ("Now chiefly as a Biblical archaism" - This is from "a right," "legal right, law" 🕎Matthew 19:28 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “righteous” - an early 16c. rightwise,, of actions, "characterized by justice, morally right," of persons, "just, upright; conforming to divine law," 🕎Luke 5:32 KJV