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A key-word search index to the contents of this site, entries that begin with the letter T, section Timotheus to Transliteration. (The other sections under T are Tabernacle to Testaments, Testimonies to Timings and Treasure to Tyrus.)

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Timotheus, Timothy (Timotheos), and the letters 1 and 2 Timothy

• Timothy, in the Greek text Timotheos, is mentioned in around 24 NT passages, from Acts 16:1 to Hebrews 13:23. (Some bible-versions have his name even in comments following 1 Corinthians 16:24, 1 Timothy 6:21, 2 Timothy 4:22 and Hebrews 13:25, but those appear to be later, spurious additions.)
• The gift which Timothy had received "with the laying on of the hands of the eldership" (1 Timothy 4:14), was obviously the Holy Spirit. → eb01c.htm
• Special comments on 1 Timothy 5:17, in connection with a study on how the saints took care of widows, the elderly, the sick and the needy. → em07b.htm
• 1 Timothy 6:10 – many translate "the love of money is the root of all evil" or "the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils". But, the meaning really is "for the love of money is a root of all these evils". And, the context shows what particular evils Paul referred to. → em08c.htm – (ea15c.htm) – Look also under the heading "Philarguria, philarguros".
• Jannes and Jambres of 2 Timothy 3 – who were they? → ea15c.htm
• Passages in Paul's letters to Timothy, mentioned at this site:
  • 1 Timothy 1
    • 1 → (es04-2.htm)
    • 12 → ee01c.htm
    • 18 → (ee02b.htm)
  • 1 Timothy 2
    • 5-6 → eo03d.htm
    • 9-12 → eo16b.htm
  • 1 Timothy 3
    • 1-7 → ee02b.htm
    • 1-13 → ee01c.htm
    • 2-8 → em08c.htm
    • 3 → (ee05b.htm)
    • 4-5 → ee04c.htm
    • 7 → (em02c.htm)
    • 8 → (ee05b.htm)
    • 16 → (ed07b.htm)
  • 1 Timothy 4
    • 1 → (eo02d.htm)
    • 6 → ee01c.htm
    • 14 → ee02b.htm – eb01c.htm
  • 1 Timothy 5
    • 1-2 → (ee01c.htm)
    • 3 → em07b.htm
    • 4 → ea04c.htm
    • 13 → ea10c.htm
    • 14 → eo16b.htm
    • 16-18 → em07b.htm
    • 17 → (ee05b.htm) – (em01d.htm) – ee04c.htm – (ee01c.htm)
    • 17-18 → (em02c.htm) – (em10b.htm)
    • 21 → (ed07b.htm)
    • 22 → (ee02b.htm)
  • 1 Timothy 6
    • 1-2 → eo16b.htm
    • 5 → ea10c.htm – em01d.htm
    • 5-12 → em08c.htm
    • 8-10 → ea15c.htm
    • 9-14 → ec07d.htm
    • 10-11 → eg08b.htm
    • 17-19 → eo10d.htm – em07b.htm
  • 2 Timothy 1
    • 1 → (es04-2.htm)
    • 6 → ee02b.htm
    • 9 → eb02c.htm
  • 2 Timothy 2
    • 2-6 → ea15c.htm – em08c.htm
    • 14 → eb01c.htm
    • 14-16 → ea10c.htm
    • 18 → eb09c.htm
    • 22 → eg08b.htm
    • 24-26 → em08c.htm – ea15c.htm
  • 2 Timothy 3
    • 1-5 → ea10c.htm
    • 1-9 → em08c.htm
    • 12 → eo10d.htm
    • 1-13 → ea15c.htm
  • 2 Timothy 4
    • 1 → et07e.htm – eo01b.htm
    • 5 → ea08b.htm
    • 5-6 → ee01c.htm
    • 22 → (ee02b.htm)
• Look also under the headings "Paul" and "Saint, saints, sainthood".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Tiran – The Straits of Tiran (and the route of the Exodus). → eo06f.htm – eo06-2.htm

TIS (bible-translation) → es09c.htm

Tithe, tithes, tithing, tithable

• Linguistics – etymology: The archaic English word "tithe" simply means "tenth part" – from Old English teogothian, from teotha, teogotha, "tenth".
  • In the OT Hebrew, the corresponding verb was asar, used of both setting apart a tithe as well as of taking a tithe. The related noun maaser (ma'aser) which simply meant "a tenth part".
  • In the NT Greek, the noun was dekatê (dekatos) which also meant "tenth" ("a tenth part"). The related verbs were dekatoô and apodekatoô, used of both taking a tithe as well as of setting aside a tithe.
  • For more, see the essay em01d.htm, including the footnotes towards the end of that document.
• The initial agreement at Sinai included neither a Levite priesthood nor a tithe system. Those were additions, a change of what had first been agreed upon. The original agreement contained a system where firstfruits, firstlings and firstborn sons were to be given to the Lord. But, that was replaced by the Levites and the tithe system which meant that the tribe of Levi (which had not been given as much agricultural land as the other tribes) came to share a certain part of the Promised Land's agricultural produce.
  • It was always the farmer who set aside the tithe (a tenth part of agricultural produce). Consumers did not do that, and there was no "tithe" on handicraft or money or wages or on fish, minerals, wood or the like. → em01d.htm
• What is the truth about tithing? In the light of the New Covenant, is tithing right or wrong, biblical or unbiblical? Does the Bible command believers to give money to preachers or churches? → em01d.htm
• Some preachers have claimed that the apostle Paul supposedly "upheld his right to live 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 – ee05b.htm
• Clergymen often quote Malachi 3:9, "You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation". That was something that was said to ancient Israel, and was connected to the Old Covenant and its tithe-system. Do those words have any bearing on the New Covenant, and on people of our day? → em01d.htm
• Haggai 2:8-9, "the silver is mine, and the gold is mine" – the context shows that that passage does not refer to money, or even to silver and gold in general, but only to the temple silver and temple gold which had been taken from Jerusalem to Babylon (and later returned). → em01d.htm
• How many tithes did the Old Covenant have – just one, or three, as some say? → em01d.htm
• For those who are interested: A free, printable word-search puzzle on the "tithe question". → puzzle32-p.pdf – A large print version and many more bible-based puzzles. → ep01.htm
• For more on monetary things in connection with religious fellowships, look under the heading "Silver and gold".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Tithêmi (1 Timothy 1:12 and 2:7 and 2 Timothy 1:11) → (ee02b.htm)

Tithing – Look about, under the heading "Tithe".

Title, titles

• Titles of men, in the religious context. → ea08b.htm – Look also under the heading "Assembly".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Tittle (Matthew 5:18 and Luke 16:17 in the 1769 KJ version, in the Greek text keraia, "little horn") – Look under the heading "Jot".

Titus (Titos)

• The name Titus, in the Greek text Titos, appears in around 12 passages in the NT: In 2 Corinthians 2:13, 7:6, 7:13 7:14, 8:6, 8:16, 8:23 and 12:18, Galatians 2:1 and 2:3, 2 Timothy 4:10, and Titus 1:4. (Some bible-versions have his name even in comments following 2 Corinthians 13:14 and Titus 3:15, but those appear to be later, spurious additions.)
• The name Titus seems to be of Latin origin. The eventual significance of that name is not known with certainty.
• Galatians 2:3 shows that the person Titus was of "Hellenist" origin (in the Greek NT text, Hellên) – not Jewish, but not necessarily a Greek either. (In Jewish use of then Greek language, the word Hellên was used of non-Jews irrespective of nationality.)
• In the Greek text of 2 Corinthians 8:23, the name Titus is mentioned together with the word apostolos. But, does that mean that Titus was an apostle? → ee01c.htm
• Passages in the apostle Paul's letter to Titus, mentioned at this site:
  • Titus 1
    • 5 → ee02b.htm
    • 5-9 → ee01c.htm – ea10c.htm
    • 5-15 → ee05b.htm – eo11b.htm
    • 7 → (em08c.htm) – (ee05b.htm)
    • 9-11 – ea10c.htm
    • 11 → (em08c.htm) – (ee05b.htm)
    • 14 → ec07d.htm
    • 15 → ec12c.htm
  • Titus 2
    • 1-5 → eo16b.htm
    • 9-10 → eo16b.htm
    • 14 → (ec14b.htm)
  • Titus 3
    • 5 → eb06b.htm
    • 8 → ee04c.htm
    • 9-10 → ea10c.htm
    • 14 → ee04c.htm – em07b.htm – em08c.htm
    • 15 → ee02b.htm
• Look also under the headings "Paul" and "Saint, saints, sainthood".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

TMB (bible-translation) → es09c.htm

TNK – Look under the heading "Tanakh".

Together (gathering together)

• The episunagôgê, or gathering together or carrying away, of Hebrews 10:25 and 2 Thessalonians 2:1. → eb10b.htm – ea04c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Assembly" and "Worship".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Token, tokens – Look under the headings "Sign", "Seal", "Miracle, miracles" and "Wonder".

Tongue, tongues

• When the disciples received the Holy Spirit, there appeared tongues of fire. → eb01c.htm
• Regarding tongues in the meaning "speech" or "language", look under the headings "Language, languages, tongue, tongues", "Glossolalia", "Speak", "Greek", "Aramaic" and "Hebrew".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Tools and helps

• Helps and tools for deeper bible study. → es01d.htm – es02c.htm – (eg02c.htm)
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Top-stone, top-stones

• On the headstone, "capstone" or "top stone" of Zechariah 4:7. → ea05c.htm
• Is Jesus "a cap-stone on top of a pyramid" as some have claimed, or is he, as the Bible says, the main stone of the foundation of God's spiritual dwelling? → ea05c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Tophet and topheth

• Regarding Tophet as a name for the Valley of Hinnom (2 Kings 23:10 and so on), look under the heading "Hell", subheading "Gehenna".
• Rearding the word topheth in the Hebrew text of Job 17:6, look under the heading "Tabret".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Tora, Torah, Towrah

• The Theological Workbook of the Old Testament (by Harris, Archer and Waltke) states,
  • The word tora means basically 'teaching' whether it is the wise man instructing his son or God instructing Israel.
• (The noun torah was related to the verb yarah which is meant "to teach", "to instruct".)
• The old Hebrew word torah meant "guidance", "instruction" and so on. → ec06f.htm – ec01c.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
• The OT section called Torah consists of the Pentateuch (the five books of Moses) – Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
• On the New Covenant's "Torah". → ec08c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Neviim", "Kethuvim", "Old Testament", "New Testament", "Bible", "Scripture", "Book, books", "Text, texts", "Writings" and "Study".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Torment, tormenting

• Does Revelation 14:10-11 mean that God will keep some men or angels in an everlasting torment? → et08b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Touch me not – Look under the heading "Noli me tangere".

Towrah – Look above, under the heading "Torah".

TR – Look under the heading "Textus Receptus".

TRC (bible-translation) → es09c.htm

Trade (profession, occupation as a tradesman)

• Acts 18:1-3 – Paul's trade was that of a tentmaker. → em03c.htm – es07c.htm
• Paul to the saints in Thessalonica: "You recall, brothers, my labour and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you" (1 Thessalonians 2:9). → em10b.htm
• Paul to the saints in Corinth: "For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ" (2 Corinthians 2:17). → em03c.htm – em10b.htm
• Look also below, under the heading "Trade (commerce), traders".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Trade (commerce), traders

• Ezekiel 28:16, "In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned". → ed05c.htm
• When the "Babylon" of the book of Revelation falls, traders (merchants) will wail. → ew03b.htm
• Look also above, under the heading "Trade (occupation, profession)".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Transcribe, transcribing

• On how the Greek alphabet is at this site transcribed into English letters, look under the heading "Greek".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Transfiguration, transfigured, transform, transformed

• To trans-figure or to trans-form = to change. Details:
• In Matthew 17:2, Mark 9:2, Romans 12:2 and 2 Corinthians 3:18, the word in the Greek text is metamorphoô, which is best translated as "to change", just as a number of more understandable bible-versions have it.
  • A note: The words "transfigure" and "transform" that many bible-versions use, are of Latin origin – copied from the Catholic Vulgate version which had transfiguratus in Matthew 17:2 and Mark 9:2, and transformamur in 2 Corinthians 3:18. (In Romans 12:2, the Vulgate has reformamini, which means the same as transformamini.) All of the Latin verbs in question, transfigo, transformo and reformo, meant "to change the shape or form of".
  • Anyway, the Greek word in the four relevant verses was metamorphoô – more exactly, metemorphôthê in Matthew 17:2 and Mark 9:2, metamorphousthe in Romans 12:2 and metamorphoumetha in 2 Corinthians 3:18 – all best translated as "changed".
• Some bible-versions have "transform" in 2 Corinthians 11:13-15. There, the Greek word in question is metaschêmatizô which in this particular case is best translated as "to disguise", just as a number of translations have it. The meaning is, "deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of the Anointed" (2 Corinthians 11:13), "Satan disguises himself as a messenger of light" (verse 14) and "his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness" (verse 15). For more on the word metaschêmatizô in 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, see the essay ed04c.htm.
  • A note: In 1 Corinthians 4:6 and Philippians 3:21, the word metaschêmatizô is used in other meanings.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Transgress, transgressed, transgressing, transgression, transgressions

• The Latin noun transgressio (trans-gressio) meant "a going across", "a going over", "a passing over", "a passage". It was derived from the verb transgradior – trans, "beyond" + gradior, "to step", "to walk". That is also what the English word "transgression" refers to: Going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit, such as one defined by law, duty or moral principle. (The verb "to trespass" has the same meaning.)
• For more on transgression in the meaning "sin", look under the heading "Sin". Look also under the heading "Righteousness".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Translate, translated, translating, translation, translations (bible-translations)

• The English words "translate" and "translation" come from the Latin translatus which was the perfect participle form of the Latin verb transfero which literally referred to "carrying across" (such as moving to another place) but was also used of linguistic things.
  • In other words: "Translating" is the same as transferring – carrying over something, either from one place to another, or from one language to another.
  • A note: Some older English bibles use the verb "translate" is its literal meaning, "moving from one place to another". There is more on this below, a few lines down.
• "Translations" and "versions": In the linguistic context, the word "version" has the same meaning as "translation". The English noun "version" comes from the Middle Latin noun versio which meant "a turning" (from the Latin verb verto, "to turn").
  • In other words: In the biblical context, the word "version" simply means the same as "translation".
    • Examples: Versio Vulgata = "the commonly published translation"; the King James version = the King James translation.
  • But: In some older bibles such as KJV-1769, the words "translate", "translated" and "translation" sometimes refer to moving something or someone from one place to another. For an explanation, see the next point, one line down.
• "Translated" – on the words "translate", "translated" and "translation" in 2 Samuel 3:10, Colossians 1:13 and Hebrews 11:5 (in KJV-1769 and some other bible-versions with archaic language):
  • In those passages, those words are used in their older, literal sense and refer to moving something or someone from one place to another. This has to do with Latin where (as was explained above) the word translatus was the perfect participle form of the verb transfero which meant "to bear across", "to carry over", "to transport".
  • In other words: The "translation" that 2 Samuel 3:10, Colossians 1:13 and Hebrews 11:5 talk about, refers to moving over or taking away. (In some English bibles, the word "translate" instead refers to linguistic translation. Some use it, confusingly, in both meanings.)
• For a small example of the extreme difficulty of interpreting and translating ancient Hebrew, look under the heading "Egg".
• An explanation of the short names of the bible-translations quoted at this site. → es09c.htm
• On the original KJ translation (1611) and the men who were involved in its production. → es03c.htm
• On the so-called "Received Text" – look under the heading "Textus Receptus" and see even the essay es03c.htm.
• Tools for translating or studying the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible. → es02c.htm
• Regarding "interlinear translations": Many people have been caused to think that interlinears would somehow be more "reliable" or "objective" than translations without the Hebrew and Greek texts. But, all those interlinears are, of course, a work of men, where the translators have included their bias and (through a shrewd choice of words) even church dogmas and so on. In other words: Interlinear bibles are just as biased and slanted as other translations. Regarding better tools and helps for bible study, see the pages es01d.htm and es02c.htm. For keys to a better understanding of the Bible, and ways to avoid certain common pitfalls in study, see the essay eg02c.htm.
• Look also under the headings "Versions", "Bible", "Greek", "Aramaic", "Hebrew" and "Language, languages, tongue, tongues".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Transliterate, transliterated, transliteration

• On how the Greek alphabet is at this site transliterated or transcribed into English letters, look under the heading "Greek".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

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