Appendix A

The road taught one word at a time, in the place each word does its work. They are gathered here in one alphabetical list, so a reader who wants to find a term again does not have to go looking through the movement it came from. Each entry gives the word, a plain gloss, the verses where it sits, and the movement that walked it. Transliteration only, the same as the body; no claim is made on the reader's pronunciation. Hebrew and Greek are marked. Where a word was taught alongside a related form, the forms are noted together under the headword.

chen (Hebrew)

"grace, favor, gift"; the root sense behind hinnam (also written chinnam — the same word), carrying the sense of something freely given, for no return.

related to Genesis 6:8 and throughout. · Movement Three

ha-satan (Hebrew)

"the adversary," "the accuser"; the definite article ha- marks it as a title and an office, not a personal name — the prosecutor in the divine council. Worked out in full in the companion volume.

Job 1:6; 1:9; 2:1. · Movement Three

heauton ekenosen (Greek)

"he emptied himself"; Paul's phrase for the Memra's voluntary setting-aside, in the incarnation, of the awareness and use of His divine fullness — not the fullness itself, which remained (Colossians 2:9). The noun behind it is kenosis.

Philippians 2:7. · Movement Eleven

hinnam (also written chinnam) (Hebrew)

"for nothing, without cause, without payment" — the same word that can mean both "for no return" and "for no reason"; the hinge word of the accuser's challenge — "does Job fear God for nothing?" — carrying at once the charge that Job's faith is bought and, when Job throws it back, the cry that he is struck "without cause."

Job 1:9; 9:17; 2:3. · Movement Three

hypomonē (Greek)

"endurance, steadfastness" — literally a remaining-under, from hypo ("under") and menō ("to remain"); the word behind the "patience" of "the patience of Job" (James 5:11). Not calm or quiet patience but staying under the weight without leaving — the endurance of a man who raged and never let go.

James 5:11. · Movement Seven

kenosis (Greek)

"emptying"; the theological term for the Memra's self-limiting in the incarnation — real enough that He genuinely learned, was genuinely tempted, was genuinely forsaken. The verb form is heauton ekenosen.

from Philippians 2:7. · Movement Eleven

livyathan (Hebrew)

"Leviathan"; the great sea-creature of Job 41, and across the canon the image of the chaos-monster of the deep — crushed at creation, reserved for judgment, or set to play, but never a rival to its Maker. Cognate with the Ugaritic Lotan.

Job 3:8; 41:1; Psalm 74:14; 104:26; Isaiah 27:1. · Movement Nine

raq (Hebrew)

"only"; the small word that caps each grant of permission in the divine court — "only do not stretch out your hand," "only spare his life" — the limit stamped on the leash.

Job 1:12; 2:6. · Movement Three

se'arah (Hebrew)

"storm, tempest, whirlwind"; the storm out of which God answers Job — the same kind of wind that took his children, and elsewhere the turbulence at the edge of God's presence.

Job 38:1; 40:6; cf. 2 Kings 2:11; Ezekiel 1:4. · Movement Eight

tam (Hebrew)

"whole, sound, complete, blameless"; the first word the text uses of Job — a man with no part missing and no fault hidden, the human cousin of tamim. Not "sinless," but integrated, of one piece.

Job 1:1; 1:8. · Movement Two

tamim (Hebrew)

"without blemish"; the technical term in the sacrificial law for the unblemished animal fit for the altar, from the same root as tam — the verb tamam, "to be complete" — so that Job is described in the vocabulary of the spotless sacrifice.

Exodus 12:5; Leviticus 1:3; 22:21. · Movement Two

tehom (Hebrew)

"the deep"; the formless chaotic waters over which the Spirit hovers at creation, ordered by the Word rather than fought — the deep that swallowed Job's life and that will be "no more" at the end.

Genesis 1:2; cf. Revelation 21:1. · Movement Nine

tohu (Hebrew)

"formless, void, waste"; the unformed chaos before the ordering Word — the word for what Job's ordered life became when it was undone.

Genesis 1:2. · Movement Nine