Biblical Concept: Language
Findings:
A nation has families / ethnic identity, language, and land. (The obvious needs to be stated.)
(Families is hx'P'v.mi / mishpachah,
see its use in Genesis 10:5 and 10:31-32 below, which also describe the ethnic
/ racial division of humanity.)
Anti-globalism: Divine confusion of language.
Scattered: God’s anti-global initiative.
Scattered: God’s counter to global human evil.
Families / ethnic identity, languages, land, and nation: God’s anti-global
initiative.
Idealism: “he who is perverted in his language falls into evil.”
Language of judgment.
“language of the Chaldeans”
Peoples, nations, languages.
Language of Ashdod.
“language of Canaan”
“a people of strange language”
“nation whose language you do not know”
“I heard a language that I did not know”
“to every people according to their language”
”each people according to its language”
“according to their script and their language”
Figurative language.
difficult language
Lycaonian language.
“language of the crafty”
Abusive language.
Language not babbling.
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Languages
NAS Genesis 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, according to their families,
according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations. (A nation has
families / ethnic identity, language, and land.) (The obvious needs to be
stated.) (Families is hx'P'v.mi (mishpachah), see its use in Genesis 10:5
and 10:31-32 below, which also describe the ethnic / racial division of
humanity.)
NAS Genesis 10:31 These are the sons of Shem, according to their
families, according to their languages, by their lands, according to their
nations. (A nation has families / ethnic identity, language, and land.) (The
obvious needs to be stated.) (NAS Genesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by
their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after
the flood.)
NAS 1 Corinthians 14:10 There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of
languages in the world, and no kind is
without meaning. (Language not babbling.)
Language
NAS Genesis 10:5 From these the coastlands of the nations were
separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to
their families, into their nations. (A nation has families / ethnic identity,
language, and land.) (The obvious needs to be stated.)
NAS Genesis 11:1 Now the whole earth used the same language and
the same words. (Net
Bible: “Genesis 11
begins with everyone speaking a common language, but chap. 10 has the nations
arranged by languages. It is part of the narrative art of Genesis to give the
explanation of the event after the narration of the event.”)
6 And the LORD said,
"Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And
this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be
impossible for them.
7 "Come, let Us go
down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one
another's speech." (Anti-globalism: Divine confusion of language.)
9 Therefore its name was
called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth;
and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
(Scattered: God’s anti-global initiative.) (Scattered: God’s counter to global
human evil.) (Families / ethnic identity, languages, land, and nation: God’s
anti-global initiative.)
NAS Deuteronomy 28:49 "The LORD will bring a nation against you
from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose
language you shall not understand, (Language of judgment.)
NAS 2 Chronicles 32:18 And they called this out with a loud voice in the
language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten
and terrify them, so that they might take the city. (language of Judah)
(Language of judgment.)
NAS Nehemiah 13:24 As for their children, half spoke in the language
of Ashdod, and none of them was able to speak the language of Judah, but the
language of his own people. (language of Judah) (Language of Ashdod.)
NAS Esther 1:22 So he sent letters to all the king's provinces,
to each province according to its script and to every people according to their
language, that every man should be the master in his own house and the one who
speaks in the language of his own people. (“to every people according to their
language”)
NAS Esther 3:12 Then the king's scribes were summoned on the
thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded
to the king's satraps, to the governors who were over each province, and to the
princes of each people, each province according to its script, each people
according to its language, being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and
sealed with the king's signet ring. (”each people
according to its language”)
NAS Esther 8:9 So the king's scribes were called at that time in
the third month (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third day; and it was
written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, the satraps, the
governors, and the princes of the provinces which extended from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to every province
according to its script, and to every people according to their language, as
well as to the Jews according to their script and their language. (“according
to their script and their language”)
NAS Job 15:5 "For your guilt teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty. (“language of the
crafty”)
NAS Psalm 81:5 He established it for a testimony in Joseph, When he went throughout the land of Egypt. I heard a
language that I did not know: (“I heard a language that I did not know”)
NAS Psalm 114:1 When Israel went forth from Egypt, The house of
Jacob from a people of strange language, (“a people of strange language”)
NAS Proverbs 17:20 He who has a crooked mind finds no good, And he who is perverted in his language falls into evil.
(Idealism: “he who is perverted in his language falls into evil.”)
NAS Isaiah 19:18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will
be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing allegiance to the LORD of hosts; one will be called the City of
Destruction. (“language of Canaan”)
NAS Jeremiah 5:15 "Behold, I am bringing a nation against you
from afar, O house of Israel," declares the LORD. "It is an enduring
nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose
language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say. (Language of
judgment.) (“nation whose language you do not know”)
NAS Ezekiel 3:5 "For you are not being sent to a people of
unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel, (difficult language) (Language of
judgment.)
6 nor to many peoples of
unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand.
But I have sent you to them who should listen to you; (Language of judgment.)
NAS Daniel 1:4 youths in whom was no defect, who were
good-looking, showing intelligence in every branch
of wisdom, endowed with understanding, and discerning knowledge, and who
had ability for serving in the king's court; and he ordered him to teach them the literature and language of the
Chaldeans. (“language of the Chaldeans”)
NAS Daniel 3:4 Then the herald loudly proclaimed: "To you
the command is given, O peoples, nations and men of every language, (Peoples, nations, languages.)
7 Therefore at that time,
when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon,
psaltery, bagpipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, nations and men of every language fell down and worshiped the golden image that
Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. (Peoples, nations, languages.)
NAS Daniel 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples,
nations, and men of every language that
live in all the earth: "May your peace abound! (Peoples, nations,
languages.)
NAS Daniel 5:19 "And because of the grandeur which He
bestowed on him, all the peoples, nations, and men of every language feared and trembled before him; whomever he
wished he killed, and whomever he wished he spared alive; and whomever he
wished he elevated, and whomever he wished he humbled. (Peoples, nations,
languages.)
NAS Daniel 6:25 Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples,
nations, and men of every language
who were living in all the land: "May your peace abound! (Peoples,
nations, languages.)
NAS Daniel 7:14 "And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a
kingdom, That all the peoples, nations, and men of every language Might serve Him. His
dominion is an everlasting dominion Which will not pass away; And His kingdom
is one Which will not be destroyed. (Peoples, nations, languages.)
NAS John 16:25 "These things I have spoken to you in
figurative language; an hour is coming when I will speak no more to you in
figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the
Father. (Figurative language.)
NAS Acts 1:19 And it became known to all who were living in
Jerusalem; so that in their own language that field was called Hakeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)
NAS Acts 2:6 And when this sound occurred, the multitude came
together, and were bewildered, because they were each one hearing them speak in
his own language. (Language not babbling.)
8 "And how is it
that we each hear them in our own
language to which we were born? (Language not babbling.)
NAS Acts 14:11 And when the multitudes saw what Paul had done,
they raised their voice, saying in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have
become like men and have come down to us." (Lycaonian language.)
NAS 1 Corinthians 14:11 If then I do not know the meaning of the
language, I shall be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks
will be a barbarian to me. (Language not babbling.)
NAS 1 Timothy 6:4 he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in
controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy,
strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, (Abusive language.)