ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “prostitute ” - 1520s, "to offer to indiscriminate sexual intercourse" (in exchange for money), "place before or in front," "expose publicly," "harlot” 🕎1 Timothy 2;9-15 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “lively ” - Old English "living," literally "life-like; “active, energetic" early 13c., For "full of life, vigorous," "vitally," :🕎 Exodus 1:19 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 “Israelite” - mid-14c., "a Jew; one of the people of ancient Israel, a descendant of Israel or Jacob," Jacob and extended to his descendants, from sara "he fought, contended"
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 “shepherd” - Middle English shep-herd, "man who leads, tends, and guards sheep in a pasture," from Old English sceaphierde. and watch sheep," "watch over or guide" 🕎1 Peter 5:4 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “country” - mid-13c., "(one's) native land;" c. 1300, "any geographic area," "region, district,” "(land) spread before one," as "area surrounding a walled city or town
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “princess” - late 14c., "woman of royal or noble birth; daughter or wife of a ruler or prince; 🕎1 Peter 3:6 “Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are”
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “saint” - early 12c. as an adjective, seinte, "holy, divinely inspired, worthy of worship," from Old French saint, seinte “devout," "one of the elect”, set apart to the services of God,”
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “prince” - c. 1200, "governor, overseer; great man, chief; preeminent representative of a group or class” “noble lord" "first person, chief leader; ruler, sovereign," "heir to a throne,
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “noble” - c. 1200, "illustrious, distinguished, of high rank or birth," from Old French noble "of noble bearing or birth, well-known, famous, renowned; excellent, superior, splendid; superior birth
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “haughty” - "proud and disdainful," 1520s, a redundant extension of haught (q.v.) "high in one's own estimation" arrogant; presumptuous" 🕎Isaiah 3:16-24 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “gentile” - "one who is not a Israelite," c. 1400; (late 14c.), gentilis "of the same family. belonging to the same nation. fellow countrymen, kinsmen," but also "foreigners”