Words the Bible translates as base
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- themeliosθεμέλιοςfoundation: the load-bearing base laid first under a building, and by extension the basis on which anything is established.
- edenאֶדֶןa socket or base: the heavy footing into which an upright post or pillar is set so it stands firm
- beliyya'alבְּלִיַּעַלruinous worthlessness: the good-for-nothing quality that makes a person or a plan both useless and destructive
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- destruction: deadly ruin, pictured in poetry as a flood that engulfs a person and drags them toward death
- mekhonahמְכוֹנָהa base or stand: the fixed support an object is set on to hold it in place
- yesodיְסוֹדfoundation: the lowest supporting part of a built thing, the base it rests on or rises from
- kenכֵּןa stand: the fixed support something is set on, and so the post a person holds
- shaphalשָׁפָלlow or lowly: lying beneath what is around it, whether in height, in rank, or in spirit
- mekhunahמְכֻנָהbasenot studied yet
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