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A key-word search index to the contents of this site, entries that begin with the letter I, section I to Inheritors. (The other section under I is Iniquities to Italy.)

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I, i

• In New Testament Greek, the letter corresponding to "i" was iôta (Ι, ι). It is mentioned (in the Greek text of) Matthew 5:18, often translated as "jot". For more on this, look under the heading "Iota".
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Iatros (Greek for "healer", from the verb iaomai, "to heal")

• In the Greek text of Colossians 4:14, Luke is called iatros. Some translate as "physician" or "doctor", but it is not clear what the noun iatros really referred to in that case. (Iatros meant "healer", from the verb iaomai, "to heal", which appears in some 20 NT passages, among them Luke 9:2.) It could of course be that Luke had worked as a physician of some kind, but it could also be that he was a "healer" in the meaning that he had the gift of healing of the kind mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12:9 and 12:28-30.
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ICHTHUS, ICHTHYS, ΙΧΘΥΣ

• The Greek word ichthus (ιχθυς, "fish") occurs in around 18 passages in the Greek text of the New Testament, from Matthew 7:10 to 1 Corinthians 15:39. (In the LXX or Septuagint, the word ichthus was used as a translation of the Hebrew dag/dagah.)
• Many churches use ICHTHYS, either as a name or as a picture symbol depicting a fish. Some have claimed that ΙΧΘΥΣ (ichthus, which means "fish") supposedly is an acronym of Ιησους Χριστος Θεου Υιος Σωτηρ (Jesus the Anointed, Son of God, Saviour). But, that is merely a smokescreen which is used for making people to worship idols. Those who have studied these things in more depth, know that both the fish-symbol and that Greek word for fish, in all likelihood refer to the "fish-god" Oannes (also spelled as Ioannes). More: It is interesting to compare the fish-god Oannes with the fish-god Dagon who is in mythology sometimes seen as the father of the sun-god Baal. Just as ichthus, also the name dagon meant "fish". (The name baal simply meant "lord" or "master".) And then, one must understand that those things do not point to the true God who is in Heaven or to his son Jesus, but instead to a certain sinister person.
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Iddan (Aramaic for "times", et cetera) (Daniel 4:16 and 12 other passages in the book of Daniel) → (ey05c.htm)

Idle, idleness

• "But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother living in idleness, and not according the tradition which they received from us" (2 Thessalonians 3:6, EMTV). → ea10c.htm
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Idol, idols, idolatrous, idolatry

• Could the saints sit in idols' temples, or eat foods that had been offered (dedicated) to idols? → ef03b.htm
• Following men (following "religious leaders") is idolatry. → es05c.htm – es06d.htm
• The Gog and Magog idols of the City of London. → et10b.htm
• Tyndale used the noun "church" only twice in his translation – as a reference to buildings connected to idol-worship. → eg06b.htm
• The ancient city of Philadelphia was sometimes referred to as "Little Athens", because of its many idol temples and other public buildings. → (ea03d.htm)
• Worship and idol worship. → ea04c.htm
• Many preachers talk about pyramids, but a pyramid is an Egyptian structure for idol-worship. → ea05c.htm
• The city of Ephesus and idol worship. → ea14c.htm
• Praying to angels, "Mary" or "saints" is idolatry. → eb11c.htm
• Apparently, it was the Catholic "church father" Ignatius who introduced Sunday-keeping and worship of "Mary". → (eg04b.htm)
• Idol-related religions often have "initiations" (ordinations), ranks, and similar things. The saints did not have such things. → ee02b.htm
• Acts 15:19-20, "Wherefore I judge, not to trouble those who from the nations turn to God; but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood." → eo04d.htm
• Some twist Colossians 2 and use it in an effort to defend their keeping of idol-related religious high days. → eo07d.htm
• The actors of the Greek theatre were called hupokritai (whence "hypocrite") and played god-roles, representing different Greek idols. → eo12c.htm
• Some have claimed that the rulers of this world are "appointed by God and continually in his service", but how is it with that, because for instance the Roman rulers served idols? → ew02c.htm
• Freemasonry is an idolatrous, Satan-worshipping religion. → ew04d.htm
• Christmas is idolatry. → ew05c.htm
• Some people replace the Old Covenant's high days, with idol-related days. → ex10d.htm
• On the Knight-Templar and Freemason idol-stone that is called "Coronation Stone", "Stone of Destiny", "Lia Fail" and so on, and which some claim to be connected to the prophet Jeremiah. → ey14b.htm
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Ierateuma, iereus – Look under the heading "Hierateuma, hiereus".

Iêsous – Look under the heading "Jesus".

Ignatius → (eg04b.htm)

IGNT (bible-translation) → es09c.htm

Image, images

• "The image of the beast". → ew03b.htm
• "The image which fell down from Zeus" (Acts 19:35). → ea14c.htm
• Paul to the saints in Rome: "For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son" (Romans 8:29). → eb03d.htm
• "The new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of him who created him" (Colossians 3:10). → eb06b.htm
• Paul to the saints in Corinth: "As we did bear the image of the earthly, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly" (1 Corinthians 15:49). → eb06b.htm
• Hebrews 8:5 and 10:1 mention "image" in connection with the Old Covenant. → ec02d.htm
• The temple in Jerusalem was decorated with images of cherubim. What were they? → ed01c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Idol, idols", "Symbol, symbols", "Antitype and type", "Parable, parables" and "Allegory".
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Imitate, imitating, imitator, imitators

• The apostle Paul made himself (his own life) an example of something, and told others to copy or imitate his example. It is important to know what that example really was. → em03c.htm – em02c.htm
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Immoral, immorality – Look under the heading "Moral, morality, morally, morals".

Immortal, immortality, immortals

• Etymology: The English word "immortal" comes from the Latin adjective immortalis which really means "not dying" (in-mortalis; in, "not" + mortalis, "subject to death"). (The adjective mortalis is connected to the noun mors, mortis, "death".)
  • In other words, "immortal" is the same as "not subject to death". But, consider also the following:
    • The word "immortal" can be used in different ways. Someone (such as a spirit being) who does not have to die but can under certain prerequisites go on living without end, can be called "immortal" – but that is of course not at all the same as the immortality of someone who simply cannot die.
• In the 1769 KJ version, the words "immortal" and "immortality" appear only in six passages, all in the New Testament, in Paul's epistles. The Greek words in question are athanasia, aphtharsia and aphthartos – those words appear in totally 18 passages in the Greek NT text:
  • Athanasia (αθνασια, noun), 1 Corinthians 15:53 and 54 and 1 Timothy 6:16. (The noun athanasia was related to the noun thanatos, θανατος, "death", and the verb thnêskô, θνεσκω, "to die".)
  • Aphtharsia (αφθαρσια, noun), Romans 2:7 and 2 Timothy 1:10. (The noun aphtharsia was related to the verb phtheirô, φθειρω, "to corrupt".)
    • It is worth noting that the even though the 1769 KJ version in Romans 2:7 and 2 Timothy 1:10 rendered aphtharsia as "immortality", in Ephesians 6:24 and Titus 2:7 it translated it as "sincerity", and in 1 Corinthians 15:42, 50, 53 and 54 as "incorruption".
  • Aphthartos (αφθαρτος, adjective), 1 Timothy 1:17. (The adjective aphthartos was related to the verb phtheirô, φθειρω, "to corrupt".)
    • It is worth noting that even though the KJV-1769 in 1 Timothy 1:17 rendered aphthartos as "immortal", in 1 Corinthians 9:25 and 52 and in 1 Peter 1:4 and 23 it translated it as "incorruptible", in 1 Peter 4:3 as "not corruptible", and in Romans 1:23 as "uncorruptible".
• Humans are mortal. They do not have everlasting life in themselves; that is something they must be given by God. In other words: Humans do not have an "immortal soul". → eb09c.htm – Look also under the heading "Soul".
• Are angels immortal, or can they die? → ed02c.htm
• Immortality and the tree of life in Heaven. → (ed02c.htm)
• Is Satan immortal? → ed04c.htm – ed02c.htm
• How should one interpret Matthew 16:18? That is: The immortal assembly which Jesus said he would form, where is it located? Is it an earthly religious organisation in this world – a church – or is it a heavenly assembly that has as its members the saints who have become immortals? → ea01d.htm
• Look also under the headings "Mortal" and "Soul". Regarding everlasting life, look also under the heading "Ever, everlasting, for ever, eternal".
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Impious – Look under the heading "Piety".

Important

• Important keys to better and deeper understanding of the Bible. → eg02c.htm
• The apostle Paul made himself a model – an example – and told others to copy or imitate his example. It is important to know what that example really was. → em03c.htm – em02c.htm
• Important, regarding citing (quoting) and copying documents at this site. → purpose.htm
• A challenge for all believers, regarding something very important. → ew06b.htm
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Impostor, impostors, imposter, imposters

• Paul to Timothy: "And all indeed who desire to live piously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in evil, leading and being led astray" (2 Timothy 3:12, DBY). → ea15c.htm
• The word antichristos really means someone pretends to be the Christos or Mashiyach, or takes his place – a false Messiah, an impostor. (The antichristoi the apostle John wrote about, were the same as the pseudochristoi whom Jesus warned about. In old Greek, the prefix anti had different uses and meanings.) → eo02d.htm
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Incense, frankincense, censer, censers

• Regarding the origin and meaning of the words incense and frankincense, see a few lines down.
• The Old Covenant's rituals in the sanctuary included incense, which consisted of olive oil mixed with aromatic spices and herbs, and it was burned either on the altar of incense, or (at special ceremonies) in a censer, in order to produce aromatic fumes/smoke. Often, burning coals were added, for fire for burning the incense.
  • Frankincense was incense of special quality, used as an ingredient at certain of the Old Covenant's various offerings and rituals.
    • Stacte, onycha and galbanum:
      • Exodus 30:34 mentions even other "sweet spices": Stacte, onycha and galbanum, which together with frankincense were used as parts of a certain very special anointing oil. Some have claimed that onycha would have been made of a certain mollusc or shell-fish, but spices are not made of shell-fish, and also, according to the Old Covenant's rules shell-fish were considered unclean which means that it is unthinkable that onycha would have been made of some mollusc. It seems that stacte, onycha, galbanum and frankincense were made of some fragrant plants or plant resins. (The special oil of Exodus 30:34 is also mentioned in Psalms 133.)
• Etymology: The word "incense" comes from the Latin verb incendere, "to set on fire". "Censer" comes from Old French censier, from encensier, from encens (incense). Frankincense was "noble" incense, or incense of highest quality (Old French franc, "noble", "true".) For the relevant Hebrew and Greek words in the OT and NT, see below.
  • In Hebrew (and Greek):
    • "Censer" was machtah (Leviticus 16:12 et cetera). (In 2 Chronicles 26:19 and Ezekiel 8:11 it was miqtereth, from the verb miqtar, "to burn".) In the LXX Greek, machtah was sometimes translated as pureion; miqtereth was translated as thumiatêrion.
      • The word machtah was even used of fire-pans, dishes and trays. How a machtah used as a censer looked like, or the golden thumiatêrion of Hebrews 9:4, is not known with certainty.
      • In the NT Greek, we find the word thumiatêrion in Hebrews 9:4 (as a word for the [golden] censer that was used in the Holy of Holies), and libanôtos in Revelation 8:3 and 5.
    • "Incense" was qetoreth (Exodus 25:6, et cetera). The verb for "to burn incense" was qatar. In the LXX Greek, we find such words as libanos and libanôtos, and also thumiaô (verb), thumiama (noun) and thusiastêrion (noun). In the NT Greek, the words for "incense" are thumiaô (verb) and thumiama (noun). A note: The 1769 KJ version sometimes translates even lebonah as "(frank)incense"; see the next point.
    • Frankincense (Exodus 30:34 et cetera) was lebonah, lebownah (Hebrew), in the LXX and NT Greek libanos (in 1 Chronicles 9:29, libanôtos).
• An important note: One must realise that what churches do, and what the Bible says, are two totally separate and different things. The New Covenant has no mortal priests, no burning of incense, no altars, no sacrifices or offerings. It would be wrong to burn incense, for some "religious purpose". For more on these things, including the use of candles in religion, see the essay ea04c.htm – look also under the headings "Worship", "Altar" and "Candles".
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Income

• Should people pay a tithe on their income, or give money or "offerings" to some church or preacher? → em01d.htm – Look also under the headings "Wages", "Tithe" and "Silver and gold".
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Incorrupted, incorruptible, incorruptibility, incorruption

• Romans 2:6-7 "He will give to each according to his works: Everlasting life truly to those who with patience in good work are seeking glory and honour and incorruptibility, but to those even disobeying the truth, out of self interest, and obeying unrighteousness, will be anger and wrath". → em08c.htm
• 1 Corinthians 15:50, "Flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption". → eb05b.htm – eb06b.htm – et04c.htm – et06d.htm
• 1 Corinthians 15:42, "It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption". → eb06b.htm
• 1 Corinthians 15:52, "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed". → et04c.htm – et06d.htm
• 1 Peter 1:4, "An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven". → eb04c.htm – eb05b.htm
• Look also under the heading "Corrupt, corrupted, corrupting, corruption".
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Increase, increased, increasing

• On the Old Covenant's tithe, which was a tenth part of agricultural produce or "increase". → em01d.htm
• Should believers pay a tithe on their "increase" or income, or give money or "offerings" to some church or preacher? → em01d.htm – Look also under the headings "Wages", "Tithe" and "Silver and gold".
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In-depth

• Helps, tools and guidelines for in-depth bible study. → es01d.htm – es02c.htm – eg02c.htm
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Infidel, infidels

• The word "infidel" that the 1769 KJ version has in 2 Corinthians 6:15 and Titus 5:8 comes from the Latin Vulgate version which had infidele and infideli in those particular passages. (Many other translations have instead "unbeliever" in those verses.)
  • The Latin word infidelis meant "not to be trusted", "unfaithful", "unbelieving".
  • The Greek word in question (2 Corinthians 6:15, Titus 5:8, et cetera) is apistos which likewise meant "unfaithful", "unbelieving".
    • The essay eb10b.htm explains what the word "faith" really means and refers to, in the Bible.
• Look under also the headings "Fidelity", "Faith", "Unbelief, unbelievers" and "Belief, believer, believers, believing".
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Infirm

• The saints took care of the elderly and the infirm. → em07b.htm
• On what the apostle Paul meant when he said to the elders from Ephesus, "I have shown you in everything, by working like this, that we must support the infirm". → em02c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Social welfare", "Widow, widows", "Good works", "Charitable, charities, charity", "Love, loving" and "Sick, sickness, sickly".
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Inhabit, inhabitable, inhabitants, inhabited

• Leviticus 25:10, "You shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants." → ec05c.htm – ex05b.htm
• Abram gave to Melchizedek a tenth part of the stolen but recovered belongings of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. → em01d.htm
• Jacob never received the Promised Land as his personal inheritance. For a time, he lived in that land as a stranger among its original inhabitants, but he never gained ownership or control of the Promised Land. → (em01d.htm)
• Revelation 8:13, "Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!" → et06d.htm
• Though the Bible shows that there will be great upheavals here on Earth, several bible passages indicate that this planet will, in due time, be inhabited, even after the havoc of the "end time". → eb04c.htm – et07e.htm
• Isaiah 65:17 and 21, "I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." "And they shall build houses, and inhabit them." → et07e.htm
• Amos 9:14 "I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit". → ex08c.htm
• Look also under the heading "Habitation, habitations".
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Inherit, inheritance, inheritor, inheritors, heir, heirs

• The ancient Israelites received the earthly promised land, as an inheritance. The Lord had given it to their forefather Abraham (see Genesis 15:18), but Abraham never took possession of that land, so the right to it was inherited by his son Isaac, later by his son Jacob (whose other name was Israel), then by Jacob's children – and finally, at a much later time, the children of Israel (the descendants of Jacob) took possession of that inheritance, when they entered the Promised Land by crossing the river Jordan (see Joshua 4). Their Inheritance, which consisted of the Promised Land, was also called their "Rest" (see Deuteronomy 12:9-10 and Joshua 1:15, 22:4 and 23:1 and Hebrews 4:9). The saints' promised Inheritance and Rest, on the other hand, consisted of a better, heavenly Land. → ex11b.htm – eb05b.htm
• Inheritance in ancient times: The effect of the birthright on the sharing of inheritance between children. → (ey04c.htm)
• Jacob's birthright, and Joseph's birthright which his sons Ephraim and Manasseh inherited. What did the word "birthright" really mean and refer to, in connection with inheritance, in Old Testament times? → ey04c.htm
• How the saints inherited the Promises given to Abraham. → eb05b.htm
• "Flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption" (1 Corinthians 15:50). → eb05b.htm – eb06b.htm – et04c.htm – et06d.htm
• 1 Peter 1:4, "An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven". → eb04c.htm – eb05b.htm
• The saints' Inheritance. → eb05b.htm
• The English word "clergy" comes from the Greek word klêrikos, from klêros which meant "lot", "inheritance". Preachers ("clergymen") in fact claim that they supposedly have inherited the lot (share, inheritance) of the tribe of Levi. Is that true? → es07c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Birthright" and First-born".
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