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O, o (and Ô, ô)

• Where the essays at this site contain Greek words, the letter omega (Ω, ω) is transcribed into an ô (ο with a circumflex), while the letter omicron (Ο, ο) is displayed as a "normal" o. (Sometimes, modern-day Greek letters may be used.)
• Look also under the heading "Greek".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Oannes (the fish-god, whence the Ichthys symbol) → (ew04d.htm) – Look also under the heading "Ichthus".

Obadiah

• The Jews sort the book of Obadiah under the section Neviim, "the Prophets", and further under the sub-sections "the Latter prophets" and "the Minor prophets". → (ec01c.htm)
• It is thought that the name Obadyah meant "servant of Jehovah".
• No passages in the book of Obadiah are mentioned at this site.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Obedience, obedient, obeisance, obey, obeyed, obeying

• Having "faith" means putting one's trust in God, and being his obedient and trustworthy servant. → eb10b.htm
• "Who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth" – when Paul wrote that to the believers in Galatia, what did he mean? → ec10c.htm
• Many preachers demand people to follow them and to obey them and their doctrines. What does the Bible really say about that? → es06d.htm – ea06c.htm – ee03c.htm – ee04c.htm – em03c.htm
• Romans 13:1, "let every soul be subject to the higher powers" – what is behind that translation, and what did Paul really mean? → ew02c.htm
• Paul wrote to the saints in Thessalonica, "if any man does not obey our word by this letter, note that man, and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed". What did that mean and refer to? → em05e.htm – ea10c.htm
• On the misleading, erroneous translation "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls" (Hebrews 13:17). → ee04c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Righteous, righteousness", "Submission, submit, submitting", "Subject, subjecting, subjection", Covenant, covenants", "Law, laws, lawful, unlawful" and "Sin, sins, sinful".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Obelisks, pyramids and other similar things. → ew04d.htm – ea05c.htm

Obey, obeying – Look above, under the heading "Obedience".

Obsolete

• Hebrews 8:13, "In that He says, 'A new covenant,' He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away." (NKJV) → ec11c.htm
• Look also under the heading "Covenants".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Occupation (profession, trade, work), occupations

• Acts 18:1-3 – Paul's occupation (trade) was that of a tentmaker. → em03c.htm – es07c.htm
• Titus 3:8, "On this I want you to firmly insist; that those who have faith in God must be careful to maintain honest occupations" (MontNT). → ea10c.htm – ee04c.htm
• Titus 3:14, "And let our people too learn to set a good example in following honest occupations for the supply of their necessities, so that they may not live useless lives" (WEY). → em07b.htm – em08c.htm
• 1 Timothy 5:17, "Elderly people who have worked in honest occupations, especially those who are now getting tired, deserve double honour". (Author's tr.) → em07b.htm – ee04c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Odd

• Odd creatures that appear in some bible-translations. → ed03b.htm
• Odd Fellows – What believers should know about the Odd Fellows and similar societies. → (ew04d.htm)
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Offence, offences, offended, offenders

• The saints were told to mark and avoid offenders – what did that mean, in practical terms? → ea10c.htm
• Look also under the heading "Forgive, forgiveness", "Repent, repentance", "Propitiation", "Atonement", "Righteousness", "Covenants", "Commandments", "Sin, sins, sinful" and "Law".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Offer, offered, offering, offerings

• In the Bible, "offering" is the same as "sacrifice". In other words: In the biblical context, the words "sacrifice", "offer" and "offering" are synonyms, and point to the Old Covenant's burned offerings. The same goes for "offered" and "sacrificed", as well as "offering" and "sacrificing". Read on:
• "Giving offerings in church" is a Catholic concept which has nothing to do with what the New Testament teaches. The New Covenant has no offerings (sacrifices), other than that which Jesus performed. For more, look under the heading "Sacrifice". Regarding monetary things in connection with religious matters, look under the heading "Silver and gold". Regarding the matter of the covenants (old and new), look under the heading "Covenants".
• The act of "offering" (presenting) thanks and praise to God in prayer and worship. → eb11c.htm – ea04c.htm
• What the Bible says about "worship". → ea04c.htm
• Some preachers have claimed that the apostle Paul supposedly "upheld his right to subsist on tithes and offerings" – but the Greek text of the New Testament makes it clear that Paul supported himself through his own, manual work. → em05e.htm – em02c.htm – em03c.htm – em01d.htm – Look also under the heading "Silver and gold".
• Should believers give "offerings" to some church or preacher? – Look under the heading "Silver and gold".
• Bible facts on tithes and offerings. → em01d.htm
• Were the saints to eat foods that had been offered (dedicated) to idols? → ef03b.htm
• Look also under the headings "Sacrifice" and "Altar".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Office, offices, officer, officers

• Was there a "seat of Moses", an "office" which was passed on from Moses to some others, generation after generation? → eo12c.htm – eo08c.htm
• Some bible-translators have created an "office of a bishop" (1 Timothy 3:1), but the Greek NT text gives no support to such things. → ee01c.htm – ee02b.htm – ea08b.htm
• "Office of a deacon" – some translations have such wordings as "let them use the office of a deacon" and "they that have used the office of a deacon" (1 Timothy 3:10 and 13), but the Greek text mentions no "office". The meaning is, "let them serve" and "those who have served [others]". → ee01c.htm – Look also under the heading "Diakonos".
• Regarding the translation "office" in Romans 11:13. → ee01c.htm – Look also under the heading "Diakonos".
• On the wording "office of a bishop" in 1 Timothy 3:1 in the 1769 KJ version. → ee01c.htm
• "Offices" in John 14:2? Some anti-Heaven preachers have claimed that in John 14:2, the translation should be "in my Father's house are many offices". But, the Greek word in question is monai (monê) which always referred to habitations, and not to any "spiritual offices". → eb04c.htm – eb05b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Offspring

• Why did Jesus call the Pharisees and the Sadducees "offspring of snakes"? → eo12c.htm – eo13b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Ohel – Look under the headings "Tent" and "Tabernacle".

Oikonomeô, oikonomia, oikonomos – Look under the heading "Steward, stewardship".

Oikourous or oikourgous (Titus 2:5)? → eo16b.htm

Oil – Look below, under the heading "Olive, olives, olive oil".

Olam

• Many bible-versions translate the Hebrew word olam (owlam) misleadingly as "for ever", "everlasting" or "eternal". That has led to many misunderstandings. On the word olam in different connections:
  • In regard to general understanding of the Bible. → eg09b.htm – (eg02c.htm)
  • In connection with the covenants matter. → ec02d.htm – eg09b.htm
  • In connection with David's kingly lineage. → ey12b.htm – eg09b.htm
  • In connection with the Old Covenant's high days. → ex10d.htm – eg09b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Old, oldness

• Old age, old people – Look under the heading "Elderly".
• Old Covenant – Look under the heading "Covenants".
• Old Testament
  • The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and Aramaic. (The New Testament manuscripts are written in Greek.)
  • The phrase "the Old Testament" is really a mistranslation which came into existence along with the Latin Vulgate version. The correct wording is "the Old Covenant". For more on this, look under the heading "Testament".
  • Old Testament, in the meaning "Old Covenant". – Look under the heading "Covenants".
  • On the etymology (root and meaning) of the words "testament" and "covenant". → ec02d.htm
  • The Jews divided the books of the Old Testament into three sections, Torah, Neviim and Kethuvim, whence the acronym TNK and the word Tanakh. → ec01c.htm – ec02d.htm – ec03d.htm
  • Regarding the "Ben Asher" Old Testament text, look under the heading "Ben Asher".
  • Regarding the so-called "Textus Receptus" or "Received Text", look under the heading "Textus Receptus".
  • Regarding the KJ version (1611) and the men who were involved in its production. → es03c.htm
  • The book called "the Old Testament". → ec01c.htm
  • For Old Testament passages quoted a this site, look for the book name in question, in this multi-page key-word index (such as "Genesis", "Kings", "Chronicles", "Jeremiah", and so on).
  • The Old Testament: What was the difference between the concepts law, statutes, precepts, decrees, judgments, ordinances, charges, commandments and testimonies? → ec03d.htm
  • Look also under the headings "Torah", "Neviim", "Kethuvim", "New Testament", "Bible", "Scripture", "Book, books", "Text, texts", "Manuscripts", "Writings" and "Study".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Oligopistos → eb10b.htm

Olive, olives, olive oil, oil

• A note: Where bible-translations have "candle" or "candlestick", the original language text referred to a lamp (oil-lamp) or a lamp-stand.
  • The menowrah in Old Testament's sanctuary was not a "candle-stick" but a lamp-stand with seven separate lamps which burned olive-oil.
    • In the lamp-stand [menowrah] in the sanctuary, the seven individual lamps [niyr] were fed by pure olive oil through ducts.
    • The oil in those lamps, and the light produced by them, obviously symbolised spiritual things. We can assume that the symbolism at least partially pointed to the Holy Spirit.
  • Regarding the oil that in the menowrah was led to the lamps [niyr]: Special, pure olive oil; see Exodus 27:20, "pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to cause the lamp to burn continually" (NKJV), Leviticus 24:2, "pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually" (NKJV). See also Exodus 39:37, et cetera.
  • For more on this, look under the heading "Menorah", and also under the heading "Candle, candles".
• The two olive trees of Revelation 11 and Zechariah 4. → et01e.htm – et02c.htm
• The two olive branches and the sons of oil of the book of Zechariah 4:12-14. → et01e.htm – et02c.htm
• Today, the olive branch (often together with a dove) is commonly used as a symbol of the Queen of Heaven. → (ew04d.htm)
• The stone upon which Jacob poured oil (Genesis 28:18). → ey14b.htm
• The salted oil of Psalms 133 (and Exodus 30:34-35). → eo14c.htm
• The oil in the wise virgins' lamps. → eb07d.htm
• When will Jesus descend on the Mount of Olives? → et06d.htm – (ex05b.htm)
• Look also under the headings "Anointing", "Lamp, lamps, lampstand, lampstands" and "Menorah" (and even "Candle, candles").
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Ollam Fola → ey14b.htm

Omega

• Where the essays at this site contain Greek words, the letter omega ("the big o", Ω, ω) is mostly transcribed into an ô (o with a circumflex), while omicron (Ο, ο) is displayed as a "normal" o. (Sometimes, modern-day Greek letters may be used.)
• Look also under the heading "Greek".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Omer

• The volume measure omer was 1/10 of an ephah (about 2 litres) – see Exodus 16:16, 18, 22, 32, 33 and 36.
• Was the omer sacrifice of Leviticus 23 a "sheaf" as some have claimed, or did it consist of a bowl of specially prepared barley flour, as Jewish tradition has it? → ex01c.htm – ex02c.htm – ex09c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Omicron (omikron)

• Where the essays at this site contain Greek words, the letter omicron ("the little o", Ο, ο) is displayed as a plain o, while omega (Ω, ω) is transcribed into an ô (o with a circumflex). (Sometimes, modern-day Greek letters may be used.)
• Look also under the heading "Greek".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Omission, omit, omitting (leaving out something, or failing to do something)

• Not doing good – omission or neglect to help others when one should and is able to do that – is actually the same as unrighteousness. The essay eg08b.htm has more on what righteousness really is; look also under the headings "Righteous, righteousness" and "Good works".
• One must not always say or tell all one knows, but if one by omitting (leaving out) something intentionally gives a wrong impression of some given matter, then that can amount to lying. For more on this, see the essay eo05c.htm which considers what the Bible has to say about lies, lying and liars.
• Look also under the heading "Sin, sins, sinful".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Omnipotent (Revelation 19:6, KJV.) Also, notes on the English word "almighty", the Hebrew word tsabaoth, and the Greek word pantokrator.

• A note: This matter is not very complicated, but the linguistics (below) might appear to be that, for some people. If so, skip a few lines down, to the point "So, is God almighty?"
• "Omnipotent" – in the 1769 KJ version, that word occurs only in Revelation 19:6, in the sentence "Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth". The Greek wording is allêlouia hoti ebasileusen Kurios ho Theos ho Pantokrator. It is that last word, pantokrator, that the makers of 1611 King James version rendered as "omnipotent". Read on:
  • The word pantokrator occurs also in the Greek text of 2 Corinthians 6:18 and Revelation 1:8, 4:8, 11:17, 15:3, 16:7, 16:14, 19:15 and 21:22. In those passages, KJV-1769 renders pantokrator as "almighty". (The Catholic Vulgate has it as omnipotens.)
  • Literally, the Greek word pantokrator meant something like "all-ruler" or "ruler of all". However, if one compares the Septuagint ("LXX") Greek and the Hebrew text, one will find that in the around 140 passages where the Septuagint has pantokrator, the Hebrew word in question often is tsabaoth which referred to "hosts" (multitudes, or armies).
  • Some notes:
    • The word tsabaoth, singular form is tsaba, is found even in numerous other passages in the Hebrew OT text. The first of them is Genesis 2:1, "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished".
    • Tsabaoth (which the Septuagint often translated as pantokrator) is sometimes anglicised as "Sabaoth" or "Sebaoth".
    • In the 1769 King James version, the phrase "the Lord Sabaoth" occurs only in the New Testament, in Romans 9:29 and James 5:4. There, the Greek wording is Kurios sabaôth, Kuriou sabaôth, where the last part is a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew tsabaoth. In the Old Testament, KJV-1769 mostly renders Jahve tsabaoth as "the Lord of Hosts".
  • Point: The manner of translating the Greek word pantokrator as "omnipotent" or "almighty" can be a bit misleading and does not really carry over the original Greek meaning.
• "Almighty", as a translation of the Hebrew shadday – in the 48 passages (from Genesis 17:1 to Joel 1:15) where the KJV-1769 Old Testament has the word "almighty", the Hebrew word is shadday. Turning that the other way around: The 1769 King James version always translated shadday as "almighty". But, the original meaning of shadday is not known with certainty. The Latin Vulgate often translated the Hebrew El Shadday as Deus omnipotens. The Septuagint translated shadday with such words as epouranios, theos, hikanos, kurios, pantokrator and pas, pasa, pan.
  • Point: The manner of translating the Hebrew word shadday as "almighty" can be a bit misleading. And again, the original meaning of the Hebrew shadday simply is not known with certainty.
• So, is God almighty? One way to view that matter, would be to consider the question, can God control each and every individual person and object in his awesome Reign? And also: Does he want to do that? One thing is certain: God is greater and mightier than what we mortals can fathom or even imagine. But, at the same time, there are many nuances and aspects to the matter of being "almighty" or "omnipotent". For instance, God cannot force anyone to be good or righteous. He could perhaps force a person to act in an outwardly good or righteous manner, but that would not make that person inwardly good or righteous.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Omologia (Hebrews 10:23, et cetera) – Look under the heading "Homologia".

One hundred and forty-four thousand – Look under the heading "144,000".

Oneness

• Regarding oneness in the meaning "unity", look under the heading "Unity".
• Atonement (at-one-ment). – On the Old Covenant's Day of Atonement, Leviticus 23. → ex05b.htm – ec05c.htm – Look also under the heading "Atonement".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Onesimus (Greek, Onêsimos)

• The apostle Paul wrote to Philemon who had had a man called Onesimus as a slave. Some have claimed that the apostle Paul "upheld slavery". Is that true? → eo16b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Onycha – Look under the heading "Incense", sub-heading "Frankincense".

Opposed to (something versus something else) – look under the heading "Versus", for various comparisons, such as "the Spirit versus the letter".

Opson, opsônion – What Paul meant by the word opsônion, 2 Corinthians 11:8. → em09c.htm

Oracle, oracles

• In the NT, when the 1769 KJ version has "oracles", the Greek word is always logion (logiôn, logia) which simply meant "sayings".
  • The LXX used logion as a translation of such Hebrew words as emer, imrah and dabar.
• On the word "oracles" that in some bible-versions appears in Romans 3:2. → ex09c.htm – eo11c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Ordain, ordained, ordaining ("holy orders", et cetera)

• On ordaining and ordination. How did the saints appoint or choose their elders? And, were those elders "ordained", and did they function as "priests" of some kind? → ee02b.htm
• Churches "ordain priests", but the Greek text of the New Testament does not give any support to the concept of "ordination", nor did the saints have any priests except Jesus. → ee02b.htm
• When Jesus sent out the 12 and the 70, and "ordained" that (as Paul wrote) "they who proclaim the Gospel should live of the Gospel" – exactly what did that really mean and refer to? → em05e.htm
• Look also under the headings "Order, orders", "Assembly", "Clergy" and "Lay, lay people, layman, laymen".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Order, orders

• Regarding "holy orders", "ordaining" and "ranks", look above, under the heading "Ordain, ordained, ordaining".
• Hebrews 7:17, "You are a priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek." → ec07d.htm
• 1 Corinthians 15:22-23, "For as in Adam all die, even so in the Anointed shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order." → eb09c.htm – et06d.htm
• "Order in the church". → ee01c.htm – ee02b.htm – ee03c.htm – ee04c.htm – es06d.htm – es05c.htm – es07c.htm – eg06b.htm
• "Order of the Eastern Star" (a Freemason organisation). → ew04d.htm
• Look also above, under the heading "Ordain, ordained, ordaining".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Ordinance, ordinances

• The Old Testament: What was the difference between the concepts law, statutes, precepts, decrees, judgments, ordinances, charges, commandments and testimonies? → ec03d.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Ordination – Look above, under the heading "Ordain, ordained, ordaining".

Organisation, organisations (religious)

• Look under the headings "Assembly" and "Church".
• This web site is non-sectarian and non-denominational, and is not connected to any church, sect or religious organisation. For more on this, see the page purpose.htm.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Origin, original, originally, origins

• On the origin or root of a given word or thing – find the word in question, in this multi-page key-word index.
  • Example: For the origin of the word "church", go to the index overview and find your way to the heading "Church", and browse the info there.
• Look also under the heading "Root, roots".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Ornan (Araunah) the Jebusite and his threshing-floor – Look under the heading "Jebus, Jebusites".

Orthodox

• Some use the word "orthodox" in the religious connection. It comes from Greek, orthos ("straight", "upright") + doxa in the meaning "opinion". For instance the name "Orthodox Church" is a claim that the views or teachings of that church supposedly are the right or correct ones.
• Look also under the heading "Doctrine".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Oshea (Numbers 13:8 and 16 in the 1769 KJ version) – Look under the heading "Joshua".

Our, us, we

• When one reads the Bible and sees such words as "we", "our", "ours", "us" and "you", "your", "yours" – then one must realise that those words do not refer to people of our day, but to those who were being addressed (such as people of New Testament times in the first century, or people of Old Testament times). → eg02c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Ouranos, ouranois (Heaven, Heavens) → eb04c.htm – (eb05b.htm)

Ouroboros → ew04d.htm

Outline

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Overturn, overthrow

• The so-called "overturning" or "overthrowing" of Ezekiel 21:27. → ey12b.htm – ey14b.htm
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Owlam – Look above, under the heading "Olam".

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Some part of this multi-page key-word index was changed or modified 2010-03-18.