The Words

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; the one Latin entry is marked Latin. Where a word was taught in more than one form, the forms are noted together under the headword.

Abaddon (Hebrew)

“destroyer”; the Hebrew name paired with the Greek Apollyon.

Revelation 9:11. · Movement One

achri kairou (Greek)

“until an appointed moment”; the figure’s departure after the wilderness, pointing ahead to the cross.

Luke 4:13. · Movement Two

aichmalōtizō (Greek)

“to take captive, to lead away as a prisoner of war”; the verb for taking every thought captive.

2 Corinthians 10:5. · Movement Eight

antidikos (Greek)

“the adversary, the opponent-at-law”; the courtroom word for the other party in a lawsuit — the figure’s prosecutor-title carried out into the open field.

1 Peter 5:8. · Movement Seven

apekdysamenos (Greek)

“having stripped off”; the vocabulary for stripping armor from a defeated enemy.

Colossians 2:15. · Movement Six

Apollyon (Greek)

“destroyer”; the Greek name paired with the Hebrew Abaddon.

Revelation 9:11. · Movement One

aqev (Hebrew)

“heel”; the target of the serpent’s wounding blow.

Genesis 3:15. · Movement Two

archē (archen) (Greek)

“rank, position of authority”; what the bound angels abandoned.

Jude 6. · Movement Three

ho archon tou kosmou toutou (Greek)

“the ruler of this world”; John’s title for the figure, used three times, all at the cross.

John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11. · Movement Five

arum (Hebrew)

“crafty, shrewd, prudent”; the serpent’s quality, set by wordplay next to arummim.

Genesis 3:1. · Movement Two

arummim (Hebrew)

“naked”; the man and the woman’s state, set next to arum.

Genesis 2:25. · Movement Two

Beelzebul (Greek)

“prince of demons”; the Pharisees’ name; whether identical to the satan-figure or a distinct figure the text holds in reserve.

Matthew 12:24; Mark 3:22; Luke 11:15. · Movement One

Belial (Greek)

“worthlessness, ruin”; Paul’s pejorative for the figure.

2 Corinthians 6:15. · Movement One

bnei ha-Elohim (Hebrew)

“sons of God”; the heavenly council; the figures of Genesis 6 on the angelic reading.

Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7; Genesis 6:2; Psalm 29:1; 89:6. · Movements One & Three

cheirographon (Greek)

“handwritten record of debt”; the legal indictment canceled at the cross.

Colossians 2:14. · Movement Six

diabolos (Greek)

“slanderer, accuser”; the Septuagint’s rendering of ha-satan, carried into the New Testament as “the devil.”

Job 1:6 (LXX); Matthew 4:1. · Movement One

Drakon (Greek)

“dragon”; an image-title stacked onto the figure.

Revelation 12:9. · Movement One

edeigmatisen (Greek)

“made a public example”; Roman vocabulary for displaying a defeated enemy.

Colossians 2:15. · Movement Six

eisēlthen (Greek)

“entered”; the verb for the figure entering Judas.

Luke 22:3; John 13:27. · Movement Five

eivah (Hebrew)

“enmity”; the war God Himself sets between the woman’s seed and the serpent’s.

Genesis 3:15. · Movement Two

ek tōn idiōn (Greek)

“out of his own”; what the figure speaks when he lies, because lying is what he generates.

John 8:44. · Movement Two

embateuon (Greek)

“going into detail, treading into”; the verb for dwelling at length on visions.

Colossians 2:18. · Movement Ten

ērken (Greek)

“has taken away, removed”; the setting-aside of the canceled indictment.

Colossians 2:14. · Movement Six

Etheoroun (theoreō) (Greek)

“I was beholding”; imperfect of theoreō, marking Luke 10:18 as an in-progress vision, not a primordial memory.

Luke 10:18. · Movement Six

exaiteo (Greek)

“to demand, to ask for the surrender of”; the legal-court verb for the demand to sift Peter.

Luke 22:31. · Movement Five

exaleipsas (Greek)

“having wiped out, blotted out”; the erasure of the record of debt.

Colossians 2:14. · Movement Six

gegraptai (Greek)

“it stands written” (perfect of graphō); Yeshua’s answer to each wilderness temptation.

Matthew 4:4, 7, 10. · Movement Two

gibborim (Hebrew)

“mighty men”; the renowned offspring of Genesis 6.

Genesis 6:4. · Movement Three

grēgorēsate (Greek)

“be watchful”; aorist imperative in the in-between posture.

1 Peter 5:8. · Movement Seven

gymnazō (Greek)

“to train (as an athlete)”; the relocated muscle of disciplined dependence.

1 Timothy 4:7. · Movement Nine

ha-satan (Hebrew)

“the adversary, the accuser”; a function-title with the definite article, not a proper name.

Job 1:6; 2:1; Zechariah 3:1. · Movement One

har mo’ed (Hebrew)

“mount of assembly”; the divine-council mountain the Babylonian king claimed.

Isaiah 14:13. · Movement Four

helel ben shachar (Hebrew)

“shining one, son of dawn”; the morning-star epithet for the king of Babylon, rendered “Lucifer” in Latin.

Isaiah 14:12. · Movement Four

histemi (stēnai, stēte, antistēte) (Greek)

“to stand; to stand against”; the four-times-repeated posture of the armor passage.

Ephesians 6:11, 13, 14; cf. 1 Peter 5:9; James 4:7. · Movement Seven

hos (Greek)

“as, like”; the simile marker in “like a roaring lion” — comparison, not identity.

1 Peter 5:8. · Movement Seven

hypotagēte (Greek)

“be subjected, submit”; the first verb of James 4:7, the prior ground of resistance.

James 4:7. · Movement Seven

katargēsē (katargeō) (Greek)

“to render powerless, nullify”; what the cross did to the one who held the power of death.

Hebrews 2:14. · Movement Six

kekritai (Greek)

“has been judged” (perfect passive); the ruler of this world judged at the cross.

John 16:11. · Movement Five

le-sitno (Hebrew)

“to accuse him, to be his adversary”; the prosecuting posture in Zechariah’s court.

Zechariah 3:1. · Movement One

leōn ōruomenos (Greek)

“a lion roaring”; the predatory image the figure is compared to.

1 Peter 5:8. · Movement Seven

lo mot temutun (Hebrew)

“you shall not surely die”; the first lie — God’s own grammar inverted by one word.

Genesis 3:4. · Movement Two

lucifer (Latin)

“light-bearer”; Jerome’s Vulgate rendering of helel ben shachar, later mistaken for a proper name.

Isaiah 14:12 (Vulgate). · Movement Four

mashal (Hebrew)

“taunt, proverb, parable”; the genre-label opening Isaiah’s oracle against Babylon.

Isaiah 14:4. · Movement Four

melek Tzor (Hebrew)

“king of Tyre”; the addressee of Ezekiel’s second oracle.

Ezekiel 28:12. · Movement Four

metestēsen (Greek)

“transferred, relocated”; the believer moved from the authority of darkness into the kingdom.

Colossians 1:13. · Movement Three

methodeia (Greek)

“schemes, cunning stratagems”; the figure’s chief tactic — the same edit-move from the garden.

Ephesians 6:11. · Movement Seven

mot tamut (Hebrew)

“dying you shall die,” “you shall surely die”; God’s emphatic warning, later inverted.

Genesis 2:17. · Movement Two

nachash (Hebrew)

“serpent”; the creature the figure speaks through in the garden.

Genesis 3:1. · Movement Two

nagid Tzor (Hebrew)

“prince of Tyre”; the human ruler of Ezekiel’s first oracle.

Ezekiel 28:2. · Movement Four

naphal (Hebrew)

“to fall”; the root behind nephilim.

(root). · Movement Three

nephilim (Hebrew)

“fallen ones” (often “giants”); the offspring of Genesis 6, whose line the canon traces past the flood.

Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33. · Movement Three

nēpsate (Greek)

“be sober-minded”; aorist imperative in the in-between posture.

1 Peter 5:8. · Movement Seven

noēma (Greek)

“thought, mind, design”; Paul’s battlefield word for what is taken captive.

2 Corinthians 10:5; 2:11; 11:3; Philippians 4:7. · Movement Eight

nyn (Greek)

“now”; the present-tense marker locating the casting-out at the cross.

John 12:31; Revelation 12:10. · Movements Five & Six

oikētērion (Greek)

“dwelling, habitation”; the proper home the bound angels abandoned.

Jude 6. · Movement Three

ho ophis ho archaios (Greek)

“the ancient serpent”; an image-title reaching back to Genesis 3.

Revelation 12:9. · Movement One

panoplia (Greek)

“full armor”; the complete soldier’s kit of Ephesians 6.

Ephesians 6:11. · Movement Seven

paradidomi (Greek)

“to hand over, deliver up”; morally neutral — used of God, Yeshua, Pilate, and Judas in the one crucifixion.

Romans 8:32; Ephesians 5:2; Matthew 27:26; 26:15. · Movement Five

paradidotai (Greek)

“is handed over” (passive); names Judas’s accountability in plain language.

Matthew 26:24. · Movement Five

ho peirazon (Greek)

“the tempter”; the function-title as the figure does his work in the wilderness.

Matthew 4:3. · Movement Two

pharmakeia (Greek)

“sorcery, occult potion-craft”; condemned as idolatrous magic, not as the category of medicine.

Galatians 5:20. · Movement Eight

pheuxetai (Greek)

“he will flee”; the guaranteed result of submission-then-resistance.

James 4:7. · Movement Seven

physioumenos (Greek)

“puffed up, inflated”; the mark of fascinated detail about the unseen, the Head’s grip slipping.

Colossians 2:18. · Movement Ten

piptonta (Greek)

“falling” (present participle); marks Luke 10:18 as in-progress, not a finished primordial event.

Luke 10:18. · Movement Six

ho ponēros (Greek)

“the evil one”; the figure marked by his quality.

Matthew 6:13; 1 John 2:13–14. · Movement One

pseustes (Greek)

“liar”; Yeshua’s summary of the figure, the father of lies.

John 8:44. · Movement Two

rapha’ / Rephaim (Hebrew)

“giant(s)”; a people linked to the Anakim and the Nephilim line, surviving to Gath.

Deuteronomy 2:11; 3:11; 2 Samuel 21:16. · Movement Three

rhema theou (Greek)

“the word of God”; what the sword of the Spirit is named as.

Ephesians 6:17. · Movement Seven

rosh (Hebrew)

“head”; the target of the seed’s crushing blow.

Genesis 3:15. · Movement Two

satan (Hebrew)

“adversary, one who opposes”; the underlying noun, used of legal and military opponents.

Psalm 109:6; 1 Chronicles 21:1. · Movement One

sphragizō (esphragisthēte) (Greek)

“to seal”; the finished mark of ownership pressed on the believer.

Ephesians 1:13. · Movement Three

thriambeusas (Greek)

“leading in triumphal procession”; the Roman victory-parade vocabulary for the cross.

Colossians 2:15. · Movement Six

ve-gam acharei-chen (Hebrew)

“and also afterward”; the phrase placing the Nephilim on the earth past the flood.

Genesis 6:4. · Movement Three

yarkete tsafon (Hebrew)

“the far reaches of the north”; the mythic divine-mountain (Zaphon) the king claimed.

Isaiah 14:13. · Movement Four

zera (Hebrew)

“seed, offspring”; the promised descendant who crushes the serpent’s head, read as singular (hu, “he”).

Genesis 3:15. · Movement Two