Appendix A

The life was 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 hunt 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, Greek, and Aramaic are marked.

almah / parthenos (Hebrew / Greek)

"young woman of marrying age" / "virgin"; the sign-word of Isaiah 7:14 and the Greek the Septuagint had already chosen for it long before any Christian read it. Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23. · Movement One

anatolē (Greek)

"sunrise, rising"; the word the Greek Scriptures use for the Hebrew tsemach, "Branch" — so Zechariah's title for the coming One means both the Dayspring and the Davidic shoot at once. Luke 1:78; Zechariah 3:8; 6:12; Malachi 4:2. · Movement Two

anomia (Greek)

"lawlessness, Torah-less-ness"; the disqualifier in "I never knew you" — the false prophets who had a ministry but not the commandments — and the weed gathered out of the field at the harvest. Matthew 7:23; 13:41. · Movements Eight and Ten

anothen (Greek)

"from above"; what is usually rendered "again" in "born again" — but the word means a birth whose source is heaven, the new-covenant promise of Ezekiel 36 arriving. John 3:3–7. · Movement Seven

Avi / Avinu (Hebrew)

"my Father" / "our Father"; the whole nation prayed Avinu; the boy Yeshua said Avi — a personal, exclusive claim no one else made, the gap between a worshipper and a Son. Luke 2:49. · Movement Four

ayin tovah / ayin ra'ah (Hebrew)

"good eye / evil eye"; the Hebrew idiom for generous and stingy, which unlocks the "lamp of the body" saying as a teaching about money, not focus. Matthew 6:22–23; Proverbs 22:9; 28:22. · Movement Eight

Beelzebul (Hebrew/Aramaic)

"prince of demons" (likely Baal-the-prince, possibly punned with Baal-zebub, "lord of the flies"); the name the authorities used when they attributed the Spirit's work to Satan — the accusation that triggers the saying about the unforgivable sin. Matthew 12:24. · Movement Nine

B'ni / ha'ahuv (Hebrew)

"My Son" / "the beloved"; the Father's words over the Jordan — B'ni from the coronation psalm (Psalm 2:7), answering the boy's Avi; ha'ahuv echoing Isaac, Abraham's beloved son (Genesis 22:2). Matthew 3:17. · Movement Five

chaire (Greek)

"rejoice"; not the ordinary "shalom" but the verb the prophets aimed at the Daughter of Zion when her King was coming (the intensity is the prophetic setting, not the word alone), spoken by Gabriel to one girl. Luke 1:28; Zechariah 9:9; Zephaniah 3:14. · Movement One

davar (Hebrew)

"word"; the Hebrew behind "every word that comes from the mouth of YHWH" (Deuteronomy 8:3) — the equivalent of the Aramaic Memra. The Word lives by the Word. Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4. · Movement Six

dei (Greek)

"it is necessary, must"; Luke's word for divine compulsion across his Gospel — the Son of Man must suffer, must rise — first heard on the lips of a twelve-year-old. Luke 2:49. · Movement Four

despota (Greek)

"Master, absolute sovereign"; Simeon's address to God, the word a watchman uses for the commander finally releasing him from his post. Luke 2:29. · Movement Three

doulē (Greek)

"slave-girl"; the lowest social rung, and Mary's name for herself in surrender — the line of Abraham's here I am and Isaiah's send me. Luke 1:38. · Movement One

dynamis (Greek)

"power"; what Yeshua felt go out of Him when the bleeding woman touched His garment — power flowing on a budget He could sense being drawn upon. Mark 5:30. · Movement Nine

ego eimi (Greek)

"I AM"; the name from the burning bush, spoken by Yeshua to the woman at the well and over the water in the storm. John 4:26; 6:20; Exodus 3:14. · Movements Seven and Ten

ekballei (Greek)

"drives out, casts out"; Mark's forceful word for the way the Spirit sent Yeshua into the wilderness — not led gently but drove. Mark 1:12. · Movement Six

ekklesia (Greek)

"assembly, the called-out ones"; the community Yeshua promises to build on the confession of who He is — the assembly that storms the gates of hell rather than merely surviving them. Matthew 16:18. · Movement Eleven

episkiazo (Greek)

"to overshadow"; the glory-cloud verb of Exodus 40:35, when the kavod filled the tabernacle so densely Moses could not enter — chosen by Gabriel for the Spirit's coming over Mary. She becomes the new tabernacle. Luke 1:35; Exodus 40:35. · Movement One

esplagchnisthē (Greek)

"moved with compassion in the gut"; the visceral mercy that rose in Yeshua at the widow of Nain's funeral, compassion felt in the body before the will. Luke 7:13. · Movement Nine

eucharistēsas (Greek)

"having given thanks"; the blessing-and-breaking of the loaves at the feeding — the same gesture He will make over the bread at His last supper, the cross rehearsed early. John 6:11. · Movement Ten

exodos (Greek)

"departure, exodus"; the word Moses and Elijah use on the mountain for the death Yeshua was about to accomplish at Jerusalem — His cross named as the new exodus. Luke 9:31. · Movement Eleven

ge'ulah / Go'el (Hebrew)

"redemption" / "kinsman-redeemer"; the family member who buys back what was lost — the word Anna reaches for over the child. Luke 2:38; Leviticus 25:25; Ruth 3–4. · Movement Three

goggyzō (Greek)

"to grumble, murmur"; the word the old Greek Scriptures use for Israel murmuring against the manna — and for the crowd murmuring against the Bread of Life. The bread changed; the complaint did not. John 6:41; Exodus 16:2. · Movement Ten

helkyō (Greek)

"to draw, pull"; a strong word — the Father draws people to the Son, not merely invites; the same verb for dragging a full net to shore. John 6:44. · Movement Ten

Immanuel (Hebrew)

"God with us"; the prophetic title Matthew sets beside the name Yeshua — what He does (save) and who He is (God come to dwell). Matthew 1:23; Isaiah 7:14. · Movement One

katalyō (Greek)

"to abolish, tear down, demolish"; the word for what Yeshua did not come to do to the Law — the word used elsewhere for the destruction of the temple, stone from stone. Matthew 5:17. · Movement Eight

kavod (Hebrew)

"glory, weight, heaviness"; the heavy radiance of God's own presence that filled the tabernacle and the temple — blazing over shepherds on a hillside, and blazing out through Yeshua's own skin on the mountain when the veil lifted. Luke 2:9; Exodus 40:34; Mark 9:2–3. · Movements Two, Seven, and Eleven

keraia (Greek)

"a tiny pen-stroke"; the little mark that tells one Hebrew letter from another — not one of which, Yeshua says, will pass from the Law until heaven and earth pass. Matthew 5:18. · Movement Eight

kokhav (Hebrew)

"star"; Balaam's "star out of Jacob," the most famous messianic line in the east, and the sign the magi followed. Matthew 2:2; Numbers 24:17. · Movement Three

kraspedon (Greek)

"tassel, fringe"; the tzitzit on the corner of the garment, worn at the Torah's command — the hem the bleeding woman reached for. Matthew 9:20; Numbers 15:38. · Movement Nine

l'malei kol tzedakah (Hebrew)

"to fill up all righteousness"; the reason Yeshua gives for entering a baptism He does not need — to fill every requirement and set all things in order, standing where sinners stand. Matthew 3:15. · Movement Five

lyō (Greek)

"to relax, loosen, set aside"; whoever loosens the least commandment and teaches others to, Yeshua says, will be least in the kingdom. Matthew 5:19. · Movement Eight

Memra (Aramaic)

"the Word"; the term the synagogue Targums used for YHWH's own self-expression acting and seen within creation — the borrowed word this whole series reads the Scriptures by. (See the Prologue.) · throughout

metemorphōthē (Greek)

"was transformed"; here, not a change into something new but the surfacing of what was always underneath — the glory of God shining out through the human veil for one moment. Mark 9:2. · Movement Eleven

Migdal Eder (Hebrew)

"tower of the flock"; the Bethlehem pasture where, by a widely told tradition, the flocks for the temple were raised — the resonance behind the lamb wrapped and laid in a manger. Luke 2:7; Micah 4:8. · Movement Two

nazir (Hebrew)

"consecrated one, set apart"; the angel's word over Samson, folded into the name of Nazareth — the Holy One set apart. Matthew 2:23; Judges 13:5. · Movement Four

netzer (Hebrew)

"branch, shoot"; the living shoot from the cut-down stump of Jesse, and the root of the name Natzeret (Nazareth) — the Branch grew up in the town named Branch. Matthew 2:23; Isaiah 11:1. · Movement Four

ouk edynato (Greek)

"He could not" — not "would not"; Mark's startling word for Nazareth, where unbelief shut the channel the power flowed through. Mark 6:5. · Movement Nine

Pidyon HaBen (Hebrew)

"redemption of the firstborn"; the five shekels of silver paid to buy back the firstborn who belongs to God — Joseph redeeming the Redeemer. Luke 2:22–24; Numbers 18:15–16. · Movement Three

plerōsai (Greek)

"to fill full, fill to the brim, complete"; what Yeshua did come to do with the Law — fill it to its full measure, not tear it down. The plumb-line of the whole series. Matthew 5:17. · Movement Eight

proskyneō (Greek)

"to bow the face to the ground, to worship"; the magi's true worship and Herod's murderous lie, the same word in opposite mouths — and the prostration the tempter demanded, which belongs to YHWH alone. Matthew 2:2, 8; 4:9–10. · Movements Three and Six

rhomphaia (Greek)

"great battle-sword"; not a dagger but the broad sword — the word the Greek Scriptures use for the flaming sword at Eden's gate — that Simeon says will pierce Mary's own soul. Luke 2:35. · Movement Three

Ruach (Hebrew)

"Spirit, breath, wind"; God's own breath — descending like a dove and hovering over the Jordan as it hovered over the waters at creation; the Spirit Yeshua is driven by, ministers by, and likens to the wind that blows where it wishes. Matthew 3:16; Genesis 1:2; John 3:8. · throughout

schizō (Greek)

"to tear, to rip apart"; Mark's violent word for the heavens at the baptism — the same word he saves for the temple veil at the cross, the two tearings that bookend his Gospel; the answer to "Oh that You would rend the heavens and come down." Mark 1:10; Isaiah 64:1. · Movement Five

skirtao (Greek)

"to leap"; the unborn John leaping in the womb, the same word the Greek Scriptures use for David leaping and dancing before the ark. Luke 1:41; 2 Samuel 6:16. · Movement One

Talitha cumi (Aramaic)

"little girl, arise"; the two words Mark kept in the original tongue, spoken by Yeshua over the dead daughter of Jairus. Mark 5:41. · Movement Nine

tevilah (Hebrew)

"immersion"; the washing by which a Gentile became a Jew — which John scandalously demanded of Israel itself, leveling the ground for everyone. Luke 3:3. · Movement Five

vay'hi d'var YHWH (Hebrew)

"and the word of YHWH came"; the old prophetic formula, unheard for four centuries, resuming — and landing not on a king or a priest but on a wild man in the wilderness. Luke 3:2; Jeremiah 1:2; Ezekiel 1:3. · Movement Five

yod (Hebrew)

"the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet"; not even it — "not an iota" — will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Matthew 5:18. · Movement Eight

Yeshua (Hebrew)

"YHWH saves"; the name given by the angel before conception — the mission built into the name, doing what only God does, the forgiving of sins. Matthew 1:21; Luke 1:31; Psalm 130:8. · Movement One