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.)

 

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