What Does the Word Worship Mean Part 2
Good Day All Yee Worshipers In the recent post we looked to see the word worship and what that word meant according to its structure from an English perspective and now we are going to look at its Hebrew and Greek origins and see how it was structured and glean God`s original perspective of what worship meant to Him. 1. In the Old Testament Hebrew Bible the word that often used to represent worship is “Hishtachawah” of which the basic meaning means “to bow down in reverence and submission” it involves bowing completely before a sovereign as a sign of deep respect, humility and surrender. Reference to this Is 1 kings 1:23 and Nehemiah 8:6 and also Leviticus 9:24 “did obeisance (hishtachawah) to the king with his face to the ground kneeling completely” 1King s 1:23 2. Worship is also translated from Hebrew “Aboda” and in Greek it means “latreno”, and it means service and sacrifice, both words associated with work done in the temple in the Old Testament 3. Another word translated as wo