The Words

The road taught its words along the way, each in the place it 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.

anomia (Greek)

"lawlessness, Torah-less-ness"; the throwing-off of the commandments that runs as a thread through the whole story — and in the last days, Yeshua says, it increases and the love of many grows cold. Matthew 24:12 (also 7:23; 13:41). · Movement Eight

Bar-Abba (Barabbas) (Aramaic)

"son of the father"; the murderer the crowd asks for instead of Yeshua — the false son of the father chosen over the true Son of the Father. Matthew 27:16. · Movement Twelve

davar (Hebrew)

"word"; the Word of YHWH that speaks and a thing simply is — the same davar that said "let there be light" over the deep, now calling a four-days-dead man out of his tomb by name. Genesis 1:3; John 11:43. · Movement Four

echad (Hebrew)

"one"; the unified oneness of the Shema (the LORD is one), which Yeshua holds up as the pattern for His people — that they may be one as He and the Father are one. Deuteronomy 6:4; John 17:11, 21. · Movement Eleven

edakrysen (Greek)

"he shed tears"; the quiet weeping of Yeshua at Lazarus's grave — the shortest verse in the Bible, God-in-flesh crying at the tomb of a friend He is about to raise. John 11:35. · Movement Four

ego eimi (Greek)

"I AM"; the Name from the burning bush, on Yeshua's own lips — "before Abraham was, I AM," "I am the resurrection and the life," and again at the arrest, where the soldiers fall back at the sound of it. John 8:58; 11:25; 18:5–6; Exodus 3:14. · Movements Three, Four, Twelve

ehyeh asher ehyeh (Hebrew)

"I AM that I AM"; the name God gives Moses at the bush, the self-existence that never began and never ends — the claim Yeshua makes for Himself in the Temple. Exodus 3:14. · Movement Three

eis telos (Greek)

"to the end" and "to the uttermost"; how John says Yeshua loved His own — to the last moment and to the very limit, all the way down. John 13:1. · Movement Ten

El'azar (Hebrew)

"God has helped"; rendered "Lazarus" — the name of the only beggar Yeshua ever names in a parable, and of the friend He raises at Bethany. The system's nobody is the one God names. Luke 16:20; John 11. · Movements One and Four

Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani (Aramaic)

"My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"; the cry from the cross — and the opening line of Psalm 22, a psalm that begins in forsakenness and ends in vindication. Matthew 27:46; Psalm 22:1. · Movement Thirteen

emet (Hebrew)

"faithfulness, reliability"; the "truth" of "the way, the truth, the life" — not the philosopher's abstraction but covenant trustworthiness you can stake your life on. John 14:6. · Movement Eleven

enebrimaomai (Greek)

"to snort with indignation, to be deeply angered"; the word the translations soften to "deeply moved" — Yeshua's rage at the tomb, not at the mourners but at death itself. John 11:33, 38. · Movement Four

exodos (Greek)

"departure, exodus"; the word Moses and Elijah used on the mountain for the death Yeshua would accomplish at Jerusalem — the journey this book walks toward. Luke 9:31. · Prologue

Gethsemane (Aramaic)

"oil press"; the garden across the Kidron where olives were crushed under stone for their oil — and where the Master was crushed, and took the cup. Matthew 26:36. · Movement Twelve

Golgotha (Aramaic)

"the place of a skull"; the low rise outside the wall where Yeshua was crucified between two criminals. Matthew 27:33; John 19:17. · Movement Thirteen

grēgoreite (Greek)

"stay awake, keep watch"; the central command of the Olivet Discourse — since no one knows the day, live ready; the same word He says in Gethsemane. Matthew 24:42; 25:13; 26:41. · Movements Eight and Twelve

HaDerekh (Hebrew)

"the Way"; Torah-walking, the path you live — and what the first believers were called (a way is something you walk). John 14:6; Acts 9:2. · Movement Eleven

Hallel (Hebrew)

"praise"; the psalms of praise (113–118) sung by every pilgrim at the great feasts — and the source of the "Hosanna" the crowd cried over Yeshua at the gate. Psalm 118; Matthew 21:9. · Movement Five

hen / heis (Greek)

"one (thing, one in essence)" / "one (person)"; the two Greek words for "one." Yeshua said hen — "I and the Father are one," one being expressed, the Word and the Source — not heis, one lone person. John 10:30. · Movement Three

hoshia-na (Hebrew)

"save us — save now"; the cry behind "Hosanna," a plea and not a cheer, sung from Psalm 118 to the King riding in to do exactly that, in the one way none of them expected. Psalm 118:25; Matthew 21:9. · Movement Five

hupomeinas (Greek)

"the one who endures"; to bear up under pressure and stay the course — "the one who endures to the end will be saved." Matthew 24:13. · Movement Eight

kyrios / theos (Greek)

"Lord" / "God"; the two divine titles Thomas confesses over the risen Yeshua — kyrios being the word the Greek Scriptures use for YHWH — and which Yeshua receives rather than refuses. John 20:28. · Movement Fourteen

matzah (Hebrew)

"unleavened bread, the bread of affliction"; eaten since the night of the Exodus, broken by Yeshua at the seder as His own body. Deuteronomy 16:3; Matthew 26:26. · Movement Ten

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, and Book One.) · throughout

menō (Greek)

"abide, remain"; rung eleven times through the vine passage, and defined there not as a feeling but as keeping His commandments. John 15:4–10. · Movement Eleven

panta ta ethne (Greek)

"all the nations" (the goyim); the peoples of the earth gathered before the throne of the Son of Man to be judged — by how they treated the least of His brothers. Matthew 25:32. · Movement Nine

Rabboni (Aramaic)

"my Teacher"; Mary Magdalene's cry in the garden the instant the risen Yeshua speaks her name. John 20:16. · Movement Fourteen

Ruach (Hebrew)

"Spirit, breath, wind"; God's own breath — the Helper of the same kind, breathed on the disciples as the breath of new creation. John 3:8; 20:22. · throughout

shekinah (Hebrew)

"the dwelling-glory of God"; the cloud that received Yeshua at the ascension — the same glory-cloud that filled the wilderness tabernacle and Solomon's temple. Acts 1:9; Exodus 40:34. · Movement Fifteen

Shema (Hebrew)

"Hear"; the opening word, and the name, of Israel's great confession — Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one — which Yeshua names, with love of neighbor, as the commandment the whole Torah hangs on. Deuteronomy 6:4–5; Mark 12:29. · Movements Seven and Eleven

Shiloach / Siloam (Hebrew)

"Sent"; the pool where the blind man washed — the Sent One sending him to the water named Sent. John 9:7. · Movement Two

shiqquts meshomem (Hebrew)

"the abomination that causes desolation"; Daniel's phrase for the desecration of the holy place — foreshadowed by Antiochus, invoked again by Yeshua over the Temple's coming fall. Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11; Matthew 24:15. · Movement Eight

tetelestai (Greek)

"it is finished"; one word, the perfect tense of teleō — and the term stamped across a first-century receipt: paid in full. Not the sigh of defeat but the shout of a debt settled. John 19:30. · Movement Thirteen

tokos (Greek)

"interest" (on a loan); the gain the Torah forbids God's people to take from one another — and the very "faithfulness" the hard master in the parable of the talents demands. Exodus 22:25; Matthew 25:27. · Movement Nine

yada (Hebrew)

"to know"; the Hebrew word for the intimate, experiential knowing of a shared life, not mere acquaintance — the relational "knowing" that stands behind the bridegroom's Greek "I do not know you" (oida) to the foolish bridesmaids. Matthew 25:12. · Movement Nine