WordBloom

MIRACLE CURE WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word of the day finds its relative today in our word “spit”. That may make you wonder why the WordBloom Team chose such a sticky, unattractive word but read on.  There are two less than attractive uses of spittle in the Bible but there is one really cool use. Jesus took his spittle …

SUPPORTIVE WORD OF THE DAY Encourage is actually one of those seemingly more confusing blooms because encourage has so many relatives. As you watch those synonyms dance about the bloom, you will see everything from strengthen, to comfort, to grasp, to fortify. Take a look at the verses while you are at it. Ten minutes clicking around this bloom will …

CONFUSED WORD OF THE DAY Spider is used only once in the Bible. Even more interesting, it is only used in one translation. So here’s the question, what word do the other versions use? A quick click reveals that the other versions use the word “lizard” instead of spider in the same verse. What? The WordBloom Team wasn’t able to …

PUZZLING WORD OF THE DAY Do you like crossword puzzles? How about logic or jigsaw puzzles? If so, you are going to love today’s word of the day. The WordBloom Team typed in “puzzle” and found that, though it didn’t exist in the Bible text, it showed up in a Bible definition for chiydah. Chiydah is an ancient word for …

FIRERY WORD OF THE DAY In today’s vocabulary we might say a “fire is glowing” but there are so many other uses of the word. We relate glow to things like neon, lights, glow sticks, and even emotions. The Biblical uses of glow, however, are limited to ideas like fire, burning, or trying as in testing. Surprisingly, glow only makes …

INVITING WORD OF THE DAY The WordBloom Team decided to banish yesterday’s word of the day (which, of course, was yesterday’s word) by welcoming today’s word: welcomed. Welcomed is a really inviting word that includes related words of greet, receive, and acknowledged. However, there was one related word that the team loved. That word was “accepted”. Think about it. Isn’t …

DOUBLE TROUBLE WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word, banished, is translated from two Hebrew words and used only six times in the Bible. However, these double trouble Hebrew words have many synonyms used many times in many places throughout the Bible. Related words include outcast, removed, and many other expected words. One unexpected word caught our eye: seduced. Interesting. Take …

ARMED TO TEETH WORD OF THE DAY There is a reason that we are told from the time that we are young that sex should never be used as a weapon: people just seem to do terrible things like that to get what they want or to get back at their spouses. Today’s word of the day is ironic and …

TRAVELLING WORD OF THE DAY As one of the WordBloom Writing Team headed out west, “journey” found its way into the WordBloom Intelligent Search box. Travel, road, going, stages, and many other expected words were found in the journey bloom. Prosperous, relieving, and escorted were less expected. Haunt, four-footed, and endure seemed even less expected. It is always interesting when …

TRUSTING WORD OF THE DAY Yesterday’s word of the day, lovely, meets its opposite today in the form of “trouble.” Nobody wants trouble and trouble is a most troubling bloom. It is very big and overwhelming when compared to the smaller lovely bloom but very interesting. See what the Bible says about trouble – or you’re in for it!

FEEL GOOD WORD OF THE DAY Today is the day for a feel good word of the day. And what better word than lovely! Lovely verses are cool. Lovely related words all seem to feel good. Lovely. What greater thing is there than love? What adjective containing love could be anything but feel good. All of us at the WordBloom …

UNEXPECTED WORD OF THE DAY The WordBloom Team sometimes finds words that seem to have unexpected results. Today’s word, expect, is just one of those unexpected words. You might expect that expect would be found all over the Bible but it doesn’t even show up in the King James and only makes 7 appearances in the New American Standard. However, …

ON FIRE WORD OF THE DAY The Old Testament was written in Hebrew. Today’s hot word, srephah, comes from that ancient language. The Team found srephah while researching the sometimes controversial idea of cremation. Cremation doesn’t occur in English in the Bible but it was found in the definition for srephah. You will have to check out the verses to …

HELPFUL WORD OF THE DAY A  U.S. Senator was on to something when he said, “The well read will always rule the unread.” Being well read provides and requires a broad vocabulary. Today’s old word will help us reach that goal. Though succour is only used in the King James, succour’s bloom is surrounded with related words like aid, helper, …

NOT SO TASTY WORD OF THE DAY Biblical uses of lick are not as tasty as ice cream cones, popsicles, and icing. In fact, lick in the Bible is not a pretty sight at all including but not at all limited to, dogs licking up the blood of the wicked and the wrong licking the the dust like serpents. Language …

TRIP YOU UP WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word of the day may seem pretty obvious but there’s a twist. The writers and editors in the WordBloom Community may be tripped up by our seeming failure to hyphenate or separate. Most versions and most translators would agree as they hyphenate or separate but the good old King James continues to …

BIG BLOOM WORD OF THE DAY Some words just make big blooms but big blooms shouldn’t intimidate. Big blooms are an opportunity for as many clicks and much learning as you like. Take a few minutes today and look at “lost” – our big bloom word of the day. There are many ideas about lost that the WordBloom Team didn’t …

NON-SURETY WORD OF THE DAY When we hear “equity“, we quickly think of ownership or interest held in some property or investment. Funny, that is not how the Bible uses the word. Equity in the Bible is more like the idea of “fair or equitable” than the idea of “interest.” There is a varied bloom of related words like level, …

PC LOVERS WORD OF THE DAY You would think that Apple fans would be thrilled to see their precious “mac” showing up in the Bible. However, the Biblical use of mac doesn’t have a very good meaning at all. Mac, an ancient Hebrew word meaning afflicted or despairing, is only used once in the Bible when talking about a very …

OLD SCHOOL WORD OF THE DAY After you see today’s word of the day, you will never want to be on the other end of smite. Out of the King James and definitely old-school, today’s word of the day is a powerfully, big bloom. You never want to be the object of this verb. Trust us, look at the bloom …

TO AND FRO WORD OF THE DAY One of the Scholar Team was reading some “old guys’” thoughts in The Book of Mystical Chapters and came across the phrase “fluctuations of the soul.” Not having heard the phrase, he decided to see if it was Biblical. It wasn’t but the word “fluctuate” did show up in a WordBloom definition. That …

MASTER BUILDER WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word, architekton is another rich, ancient word. You can probably guess that architect is its close relative but architekton has a very specific meaning. In fact, it takes translators two English words to understand this one Greek word. Those two words are “master” and “builder.” Paul uses this word to describe himself in …

DESIGN MIND WORD OF THE DAY Craftsmen may not always make the greatest living but their life, their work, and their legacy is admired by generations. Great builders leave a mark, a legacy, that despite age is admired and revived over generations. The Bible connects the ideas of designers, architects, and craftsmen. The idea of the word is design. Architect …

HUNTED WORD OF THE DAY So the WordBloom Team was playing Monopoly and headed off to WordBloom to see what the Bible had to say about “game.” Guess what? Game in the Bible doesn’t mean anything like board games. Instead, the Bible shows synonyms like provisions, food, venison, and hunter. While you are looking at this bloom, see if you …

MONSTER WORD OF THE DAY All you have to do is say, “Whale” and almost everyone thinks of the same Bible story: Jonah and the whale. But did you know, when you type “whale” into WordBloom you find much more than a big fish story? You also find monsters, sea serpent, dragons, and even jackal. Whale occurs twice but the …

TORCHED WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word of the day is ancient Greek for, you guessed it, “lamp.” It’s amazing how some of our modern words look much like their very old relatives. Lamp isn’t the only word translated from lampas. Other relatives are torch and light. Interestingly, in our three versions, most of the New Testament occurrences are found …

DOUBLE TAKE WORD OF THE DAY Roof is today’s word of the day. In the New Testament, roof means roof like the roof of your house. In the Old Testament, roof means the top of the building but also the “roof of your mouth.” But did you know that WordBloom returns 100 suggested topics, verses, cross-references and ideas for roof? …

WATERLESS WORD OF THE DAY Powerless appears only once in the New Century, twice in the New American Standard, and not at all in the King James Bible. All three verses use powerless pretty much as expected. One speaks of the people of God being powerless and two speak of God making enemies powerless. It wasn’t the expected but the unexpected synonym …

PARTY ON WORD OF THE DAY The WordBloom Team has a friend whose nickname is “Nine Knuckle” and, not surprisingly, he suggested that we look up knuckle in the Bible. “No brainer!” thought the team, “Surely, knuckle is in the Bible.” It wasn’t but it did show up in the definition of an ancient Hebrew word (atstsyil) meaning joint in …

LITERARY WORD OF THE DAY   It’s about time that the WordBloom Team picked today’s word. How could they have waited so long to suggest “book.” Though the book bloom is a classic looking bloom the related words and definitions aren’t too surprising. The verses on the other hand will provide varied reading – a lot of it. There are …

MOTIVATIONAL WORD OF THE DAY We love WordBloom! The Team is always finding something interesting, unexpected, and fun about topics and words in the Bible. Today’s word, windy, blew in with one an interesting friend. Would you have thought that the words “windy” and “motives” would be relatives? Both are related through the ancient word ruwach. Ruwach means blowing, breath, …

GOOD ADVICE WORD OF THE DAY You might drown in today’s bloom. Sink actually has quite a variety of terms so settle in and have your curiosity quenched. Certainly you will find words like drowned and sunk but the Team was surprised by one particular part of the bloom. One related definition (tithemi) is translated as advise or advice. Why? …

VANISHING POINT WORD OF THE DAY The WordBloom Team found this long-lived word when searching to see what the Bible had to say about eternity. This Ancient word, owlam, literally means vanishing point or, more creatively, time out of mind. Time out of mind is a phrase for all of the time before or after the current moment. The owlam …

WHISPERING WORD OF THE DAY You can see it now. The sorceress leaning over the frog leg and bat stew whispering an incantation or, even worse, a horrible curse. Thank God that he neither likes nor tolerates sorcery and witchcraft. The ancient root word for sorceress, kashaph, made a previous appearance when another of its English translations, “whispering”, was the word of …

ONE VERSION WORD OF THE DAY Rules and regulations have been around a long as recorded history. Of course, in the beginning there was only one regulation, “Do not eat from the tree of knowledge.” Funny with all the regulations in the Bible, the word regulations only occurs in one WordBloom translation and there only 3 times. It its singular …

POME WORD OF THE DAY Some old language words just roll off the tongue. Today’s word does just that. Say it, “Tappuwach.” Tappuwach properly means apple or the apple tree but can also refer to the fruit’s fragrance and other fruits of the pome family like the orange and the quince. Tappuwach is also used figuratively and romantically throughout the …

CO-LEARNER WORD OF THE DAY The WordBloom Team seeks to be a team of fully, devoted followers of Jesus. Follower is one of the ideas behind today’s word: disciples. We hear the word “disciples” in church all the time. Our idea of the word is probably related to the idea of learning or following but one of the most unique …

SECRET PASSWORD OF THE DAY Did you have a treehouse, a fort, or a club when you were young? If so, then you know the importance of a secret password! You may also know how difficult it is to pick a good one. The Gileadites found a tricky, secret password when they were defending themselves against the Ephraimites. It was …

GRAINY WORD OF THE DAY Corn is used 94 four times but only in one of the WordBloom versions. Can you guess which version? One might think it would be one of the contemporary versions but, actually, it is the King James Version. The New American Standard and our contemporary version use “grain” instead of corn. The use of the …

LAST BREATH WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word of the day is epkneo. Epkneo describes the last breath of life. Translators had to take four English words, “breathed His (the) last“, to describe this one Greek word. The WordBloom Team ran across this word while finding out why ghost was related to the word sleep and the word dead. You …

LIFE GIVING WORD OF THE DAY There are few words in the Bible, in the New Testament, as important as resurrection. The resurrection of Jesus from the grave was life giving moment of Christianity. Death was the sacrifice that forgave sin but Jesus conquering death brought new life to all men. Resurrection is used up to 41 times in various …

GHOST WORD OF THE DAY Phantasma appears as today’s word of the day after making only two debuts in the Bible. It’s a scary match to our contemporary word phantom carrying the same meanings of spirit or ghost. It is used for the proper name of the Spirit of God and to describe what the disciples feared as they saw …

DEEP SLEEP WORD OF THE DAY? We often hear of people in a “dead sleep” or being “dead asleep.” Those terms actually find some of their roots in Biblical literature. The WordBloom team found a root to those phrases in today’s word – dead. Dead is related to Monday’s word of the day: sleep. The Bible often uses a variation of …

RESTFUL WORD OF THE DAY? Yesterday’s bloom was a wild bloom with entirely unexpected (and kind of funny) words. Today’s bloom is just as interesting but in a different way. This bloom is entirely understandable once you see the words but there are words you wouldn’t have thought of on your own. Check out what the Bible has to say …

WILD WORD OF THE DAY Wow! Today’s word is a wild bloom. Really wild! Who would have thought that a bed bloom would have had such a wide range of meanings – some of which are really edgy.

MORSEL WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word of the day, crumbs, is actually an abstract of an ancient word for “falling” used in conjunction with “a little bit or morsel.” Crumbs finds itself used in three separate verses, in three separate New Testament books, all telling the same story. You should read how Jesus reached out to a simple woman …

PLUMP IT UP WORD OF THE DAY When you think of overwhelmed, you may think of “really full” or “overpowering” but would you think of “plump”? Plump, one of the Biblical definitions of overwhelmed, is joined by rain, rinsed, clean, swoon, faint, hide, concealed, covered and, of course, overflows. These are only some of the words in this plump bloom. …

UNDER-USED WORD OF THE DAY The WordBloom Team never ceases to be surprised. Surprise is what happened when the team looked up today’s word. Can you believe that paradise is used only 3 times in the entire Bible? Jesus is described as being in paradise. Believers are told they will go to paradise when they die. Paradise seems to be …

LONG TERM WORD OF THE DAY Long live today’s word of the day! Healthy is used 21 time in the New Century Version and only a few times in the older versions. It has synonyms like long, span, and born through the ancient word “tippuch” which adds the idea of time. The Bible uses this added idea to teach important …

TAXING WORD OF THE DAY We think it’s pretty funny that the ancient Biblical word “blow” (Aramaic) is defined as a tax. So the next time your taxed you can really say, “Now there’s another blow to my wallet!” Blow is an ancient Biblical word from the language of Aramaic that finds itself a member of a larger family of …

SNEAKY SNEAKY WORD OF THE DAY Everyone knows that we should choose God, choose well, and never be sneaky sneaky. Those who think that the King James Bible is sort of old school and stuffy might be surprised to find the somewhat unexpected use of the word “naughtiness” to describe sneaky sneaky people. Naughtiness only occurs twice in the Old …

LURKING WORD OF THE DAY You might not have expected to find “grudge” in the Bible but it caught the WordBloom Team’s attention. A quick click on grudge led us to an interesting bloom with many expected words and one unexpected definition: to lurk. The definition to lurk is linked to the words harass, hateth, and hunted. Do you have …

RED HEAD WORD OF THE DAY Some Biblical terms and ideas seem to fall into the category of things difficult to discuss and prone to divide. Wine is definitely one feisty word having been the center of centuries old debates. Few justify drunkenness while many justify the freedom to drink. Some argue new wine and old wine. But what does …

SURPRISE WORD OF THE DAY Many WordBlooms are predictable and others are just a surprise. Today’s bloom is a surprise because addicted doesn’t mean what you might think. You will have to check it out but there’s only one negative idea in the entire bloom. All of the other ideas and words are surprisingly positive including determined, giving, and devoted.

EXEMPT WORD OF THE DAY As our team continues to study the theme of forgiveness, today’s word looks at the New Testament idea of liberty. Liberty is related to forgiveness through a common definition: aphesis. However, following liberty leads to an incredible bloom full of freemen, freewomen, remission, and deliverance. One of the most powerful and related words to liberty …

PURGED WORD OF THE DAY When we say pardon me, we usually mean excuse or lightly forgive me for an interruption. Today’s word, pardon, is related through the Old Testament word cliychah to yesterday’s word of forgiveness. Forgiveness is related to freedom in the New Testament and to the idea of pardon in the Old. Pardon means “it never happened.” …

FREEDOM WORD OF THE DAY Forgiveness is such a big Bible concept that you might be expecting an overwhelming bloom but the bloom is actually simple and clean. Probably our favorite Biblical synonym is freedom. Isn’t that a great word for forgiveness? We are set free when we are forgiven by God and others. We are also set free and …

PROPERTY AFFAIRS WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word of the day is used in the Bible much like its use in modern English. However, you may not have expected to find “estate” in the Bible. With meanings ranging from a figurative state of affairs to real property, estate is also linked to words like presbytery, foot, office and elders. It’s …

CHATTERING TEETH WORD OF THE DAY Who would have ever thought that “tingle” was in the Bible? But tingle doesn’t necessarily mean what it means in common English today. Tingle is used in three Old Testament verses where God is sending such a great calamity on the people that their “ears are going to tingle.” The Bible usage of tingle …

IS IT FAIR WORD OF THE DAY Many people struggle with the idea of justice believing it to be “what is fair.” However, justice is not what is fair but what is right. In the Bible, justice is translate from words meaning right, objective, make right, and, interestingly, verdict. A verdict is justice whether it seems fair or not. The …

IVORY WORD OF THE DAY The WordBloom Team went looking for “elephant” and found it in a definition but not in the Bible. However, they did find a funny word: elephantinos. Elephnatinos comes from the Greek word for elephant and is translated as ivory in only one verse in the Bible but a quick click on “ivory” will lead you …

BUSINESS WORD OF THE DAY What business doesn’t want to profit? Profit is the cornerstone of most capitalistic enterprises and the very thing that fuels innovation. Economics generally prevails, and little is done unless there is some greater or personal benefit. The Bible has much to say about profit but what does it say about financial profit?

SWARTHY WORD OF THE DAY It’s ancient word Wednesday and today’s word is shcharchoreth – which means black or swarthy. Don’t know what swarthy means? It’s a romantic sounding word for dark-hued or dark-complexioned. With its English counterpart sounding so edging and attractive it’s interesting that shcharchoreth shows up only once and, then, in the most blushing book of the Bible …

HILARIOUS WORD OF THE DAY Do you think of yourself as cheerful? Do you carry a smile the way that most people carry a blank look? Cheerful is found many times in the Bible and is translated from five ancient words. The ancient word “hilaros”, which means hilarious, is translated as cheerful and used only once in the Bible. 2 …

FAR AND AWAY WORD OF THE DAY The WordBloom Team went looking for “remote control” in the Bible and, as you might expect, didn’t find the exact term. However, the team found an interesting bloom with cool, related words that led them along to some great verses and ideas. Follow the path to remote and take a few minutes to …

REALLY DIVERSE WORD OF THE DAY Weary may not seem like a very exciting word but you won’t grow tired of it. The bloom just goes on and on from abhor (really dislike) to unsatisfied. Don’t get impatient or faint while you look or you might not find discipline in the bloom. This bloom will fill those that longeth for …

SOCIALLY AWARE WORD OF THE DAY Most words of the day have a fun twist to them. Today’s word, needy, is just an encouragement for all of us to be more aware. Depending on translation, needy occurs between 30 and 51 times in the Bible. A couple of clicks around the bloom and its verses will open your eyes to …

BUSINESS WORD THURSDAY Some people say that there is an older profession than banking but people have been lending and borrowing since the earliest days. Lending and borrowing eventually include return favors. Favors become expected, expected favors become contractual, and contracted favors attached to borrowing and lending are usury (which is an old word for interest). If you charge or …

ANCIENT WORD OF THE DAY Perhaps it was late; perhaps the team needed some coffee but when the Bible Study Team found this word, the room broke out with shammahlama, shammbaba, shammooah, and other utter silliness. Funny though, the definitions of shammah are just as varied as the team’s funny words. It isn’t too often that you find an ancient …

DIRECTIONAL WORD OF THE DAY Some WordBlooms are just cool-looking. In other blooms, we quickly see the full meaning of a word in the Bible. There are complex blooms that almost overwhelm the bloomer. There are also blooms that lead us to neat themes in the Bible. Today’s bloom, paths, is the latter. The word was suggested by a teen …

CLEAN CUT WORD OF THE DAY If you are having a hair celebration, you might want take of running because today’s word is barber. How may times do you think barber appears in the Bible? It appears once in  Ezekiel 5:1 where God tells the prophet to get a prophetic hair cut. If you want some help understanding the meaning …

OUR WORD OF THE DAY We may not own today’s word but we like to think of it as our word. What does the Bible say about bloom? Bloom occurs in modern translations and is related to three Biblical definitions. There seems to be no surprise with bloom as its related words are exactly what you would expect: sprout, flourish, …

BUSINESS WORD OF THE DAY Whether you own a small partnership, are investing in a corporation, or are manage many workers, you want the people who surround you to be all in. You want them to have great ethics. You want to be willing to give it all. Did you know these same values are important in the Bible? In …

CHARRING WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word, “charabown” may rhyme with “charred brown” and is found only once in the Bible in Psalm 32:4.  Charabown means “parching heat – drought” in Hebrew.  What an interesting rhyme for this old word during these hot summer months!  Is your lawn “charred brown” yet?

MEGA LAUNDRY WORD OF THE DAY If you struggle with laundry envy because you friends seem to whiten their whites whiter than your whites, today’s word is for you. Can you wash a new white shirt and have it come out whiter than white? If not, you will surely understand today’s word of the day analogy. Jesus took three followers …

SCARY BOLD WORD OF THE DAY It was a surprise to find ha in the Bible but it wasn’t like “ha ha” funny. It was scary and bold. As Jesus is hanging on the cross, people walked by him, mocking him, “wagging their heads, and saying, ‘Ha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three …

BOTANY WORD OF THE DAY The WordBloom Team is often asked how they find the words of the day. The answer is that they play. Once again, today’s word was found during some random fun and study. Botane is herbage or plant life with Bible synonyms of vegetation and herbs. Do you think the ancient word botane sounds a little …

RESTFUL WORD OF THE DAY It’s a hot, hazy summer but soon it will give way to autumn. The weather will cool, the rains will fall, and things will slow down. It has been this way since mans beginning. When you see what the Bible has to say about autumn, you will see the crops in the ground and the …

DREAM DAYS WORD OF THE DAY The dream days of summer drag on for many students as boredom replaces the idea of freedom and long mornings of sleep seem a little less fun. If they only knew the what the Bible had to say about youth! There are the regular definitions like boyhood, child, and the like but according to …

BUSINESS WORD OF THE DAY Risk management is a critical component of any great business. Successful business people know that without risk there is no reward but they have also seen risk result in failure. The WordBloom Bible Study Team typed “risk” into the search box to see what the Bible says about risk. It’s true; there is nothing new under …

CHILLAX DAYS WORD OF THE DAY The WordBloom Team shamelessly tries to get people to study the Bible. To those who don’t read and study because it seems overwhelming, we want to say “Relax. It’s okay. Start studying something interesting and let God take it from there.” To those who make Bible study seem so Greek and overwhelming, “Chill out! Even …

AWAY FROM HOME WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word of the day is properly defined as “co-absentee from home” which is a pretty funny way to say “traveler“. However, when traveler or travel is in the New Testament is has the flair of a “companion” which comes from its ancient root word. The Old Testament uses have the same idea …

LENGTHY WORD OF THE DAY Have you ever had a day that just seemed to go on and on? Of course, prolonged’s definitions of lengthy, stretched, and deferred fit that type of day and many other situations. What surprised our team were some of the more unexpected links to prolonged like bestowed, delivered, bestows, and ear. Ear? When you get …

POWERFUL WORD OF THE DAY After stumbling across today’s word, our Bible Study Team was left scratching their heads and trying to decide who to call or how much time to take on Google. Could it be that L. Frank Baum knew his Hebrew when he titled “The Wizard of Oz“? Oz is an ancient word meaning force, security, majesty, praise, boldness,  loud, …

BREATH WORD OF THE DAY Have you been given a great idea lately? Was it as if the Spirit of God blew the idea into your soul? Or was it more like a blast in you head? If you have felt any of these things, then you understand the word of the day – inspiration. Inspiration in the Bible carries …

PRETTY NORMAL WORD OF THE DAY If you are a chef, you may find comfort in today’s word but chefs aren’t the only vinegar users. Coffee roasters use it to clean, singers use it to clear, and cleaners use it to scrub. The Bible is full of very regular words. What does the Bible say about vinegar?

ANCIENT WORD WEDNESDAY Ancient Word Wednesdays are always fun. Most people don’t think they have any interest in old words until they encounter a really cool OldBloom. Ruwach is one of those cool blooms. The WordBloom Team found it while studying Job 32:8 (they clicked on “spirit” from that verse). Ruwach is an Old Testament, Hebrew word for everything from …

SINGLE USE WORD OF THE DAY Did you know that the idea of “art”, as we know it, is only used once in the Bible? It’s unbelievably true! You can find that one use in Acts 17:29. The actual, ancient word for art (techne) makes a neat bloom. Art in the sense of the verb “to be” is used so many times …

FRUITY WORD OF THE DAY The grape has found itself in the middle of everything from cafe discussions to religious divisions. It may all seem a bit fruity but when men ferment the discussion begins. Don’t be too quick to dismiss all this delicious debate! The Bible is clear about people getting tipsy – don’t do it. But then why …

ARAMAIC WORD OF THE DAY The WordBloom Team was looking for what they thought was an obvious summer word, sunny, when they found it wasn’t so obvious in the Bible.  Shimsai, which is Aramiac for “sunny” is the only occurrence in the Bible. Shimshai was a scribe who worked for those that opposed God’s people in the book of Ezra. …

WILD DONKEY WORD OF THE DAY A 14 year old said it to his brother, “I can tame a donkey! I sure can.” Funny, a phrase just like that occurs in Job 11:12 tied to the word idiot. Don’t worry it doesn’t mean idiot like the slang of today. The actual word is more like hollow or vain. Now that we …

HIDDEN WORD OF THE DAY If you had to guess, would you think that the word “mask” was in the Bible? If you think it is, then the correct answer has been hidden from you. Mask doesn’t appear but the team found the same idea in “disguise” which appears up to four times depending on the version. Disguise is one …

BLOOMING WORD OF THE DAY Once in awhile, the WordBloom Team uses the word of the day spot to help Bloomers explore new ideas and features of WordBloom. Today’s phrase explores the Search Suggestion feature.  You probably know that you can search for phrases but did you know that WordBloom will find and suggest closely related Scriptures, cross-references and thoughts? Take …

BUSINESS WORD OF THE DAY It’s Business Word Thursday and today’s word is a simple business word: invest. Did you know that the Bible has three simple, wise things to say about invest?  Here’s the summary: invest what you have because you will get a return; invest across multiple businesses for security; and, he who invests earns more. Invest makes …

WET ESCAPE WORD OF THE DAY It’s an ancient word Wednesday and today’s word is a really cool Greek word. The team found it while checking out yesterday’s word (swim). Ekkolumbao means to escape by swimming. We love ancient words like this! Who would have ever thought that there was a word to specifically describe a wet get away? Translators …

SAD SUMMER WORD OF THE DAY The team was off looking for another summer word and dove into WordBloom with “swim.” Without a doubt, swim was in the Bible and but as the team swam through the verses they found a sad swim. Don’t believe it? Check out swim and Psalms 6:6.

BACKWARDS WORD OF THE DAY Summer words continue with vacation. Yes, vacation is a term found in one WordBloom definition. The ancient Greek word is schole which can mean anything from loitering as in withholding work to leisure as a vacation from physical employment. That vacation from physical employment is specifically a “school”. Now that’s backwards! We take a vacation …

BEACHES WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word comes to us from a vacation anxious teen-bloomer. It’s another one of those summer words – sand. There are the expected definitions of beach and, of course, sand. However, sand is also related thematically to large numerical words like thousand, millions, etc. If you check it out, you will see the endless possibilities.

TOTALLY UNEXPECTED WORD OF THE DAY Everyone knows that the WordBloom Team tries to pick words that people may not expect to find in the Bible. People also know that the team is often surprised at the totally unexpected results. Today’s word, gross, is one of those words. Who would have thought that gross would have been related to wax …

IMPORTANT  WORD OF THE DAY People often think of art and literature as inspired. There is also the person who inspires us all. WordBloom has four occurrences of the word inspired. One of the classics is 2 Timothy 3:16 where Paul says that “all of God’s word is inspired by God.” God was the inspiration to every Biblical writer. God …

SOUNDS LIKE  WORD OF THE DAY The Greek word holos occurs just under 100 times in the Bible and is translated into 9 Biblical words that are an altogether expected batch of words that entirely make sense as you look at the throughout the full Bible with only one word, whit, not seeming to fit the whole until you read the …

HAIRLESS  WORD OF THE DAY There are two or three kinds of bald in the Bible. Did you know there was wrong bald and okay bald? When in doubt, ask a priest. They shaved to show their sorrow and some hair fell out because of disease. No worries if you are losing your hair because you are simply going bald; …

CHICKEN FILET  WORD OF THE DAY Can you see it? Two cows stand on a small knoll just outside Jerusalem. What’s that they are holding? Two stone tablets that say, “Sacrifice more chicken!” Unless you a a farmer, you probably don’t use the term “heifer” too often but in Biblical times heifers, cattle in general, were very important to the …

SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE  WORD OF THE DAY Some may argue, perhaps rightly, that the church is not responsible to solve social issues. The Bible, however, makes no bones that individuals must be socially responsible. Take a quick look at the word glean and find that each person was to leave something for the poor and the stranger. Gleaning is getting the …

DEMENTED  WORD OF THE DAY Only one related word is playful. The rest of crazy’s English relatives are all mad, furious, demented, and insane. Interestingly, crazy on shows up in our most contemporary version. The more traditional words for crazy are coined as phrases like “he acted like a madman.” See it for yourself, click on one of the contemporary …

DEFINING WORD OF THE DAY There are some days when the team just types in a word. There is no rhyme, no reason, and no suggestion. Today is one of those days. Blink doesn’t appear in the Bible but it does appear in a WordBloom resource. This old use of blink is more like our current day “wink” showing up …

INCREDIBLE WORD OF THE DAY It seems like such an obvious Biblical word as it makes its first appearance as the Word of the Day but love’s bloom is just as incredible as the word. It is rich, it is awesome, it is love.

FRUITY WORD OF THE DAY You probably don’t believe it because we didn’t but banana does make three appearances in three WordBloom Bibles. It isn’t really the fruit. Instead it is the name of four Israelites. You just have to check out this seemingly fruity word of the day.

VERIFY IT WORD OF THE DAY Compliments to Mark M. who suggested the word “verify” for a word of the day. Our team verified that verify wasn’t in the Bible but WordBloom found verify in a definition. The Greek word “pselaphao”means to verify by contact or, by implication, to seek after. Looking at the verses, the team quickly verified the …

MISSION WORD OF THE DAY Our Chief Managing Officer is in Mexico leading a construction mission to build a camp, school, and seminary reaching 10,000 teens, countless pastors, and church leaders. In a recent conversation, he joked with us that in the middle of the night the tape measures got together and conspired to derail the next day’s building. He …

GLOWING WORD OF THE DAY Amber is used three times in the Bible and only in the King James version. Its root word is from an unknown origin and other versions use “fire” and “glowing.” So if your name was Amber it could mean hot, pretty, glowing, or polished metal. WordBloom helps you quickly see related words, ideas, and truths. …

EVENTIDE WORD OF THE DAY Today’s bloom is another fun bloom with some understandable and, yet, unexpected related words. Eventide, an old word for evening, is one of the unexpected. Why were we looking? Today’s team writer was looking at a beatiful sunset while heading westward across Texas (by they way, westward is another unexpected, related word.  Of course there …

INTERNATIONAL WORD OF THE DAY Many Americans don’t even think about international borders unless they hear a news story about immigration. The public was astonished when their very open borders were taken advantage of by terrorists. It has been a long time since America’s sovereign borders were challenged. Interestingly, American Christians are a lot like the general public. They don’t …

FULFILL WORD OF THE DAY One of the most important rules of business is that you have to pay the bills. You have to pay the workers. You have to fund the expenses. The Bible is clear that you need to pay, to fulfill, the financial commitments. Many a companies, managers, and workers could benefit from following this simple truth: keep …

GOOD-BYE WORD OF THE DAY One of our younger Bloomers submitted today’s word of the day. He will soon be saying “Bye” to a wonderful Nicaraguan couple that he met in the mission field so he typed it in. Bye doesn’t appear in the Bible but WordBloom is smart and found “Good-bye” in 13 verses. One of those occurrences is …

DIVERSION WORD OF THE DAY The leader of the WordBloom Team was seen this weekend teaching his spiritual father from Nicaragua how to play Wii. Imagine a 63 year old Nicaraguan pastor, mentor and church planter who has never seen bowling learning to bowl with a Wii! Diversions can be fun. In fact, diversion is Spanish for fun. The word …

ROUGH WORD OF THE DAY We hear again and again how each bloom leads to the next and reveals something cool, new, or really helpful. Today’s word is a great example. Yesterday’s bloom revealed that ignorant wasn’t such a bad thing to be unless you were rude. Clicking on rude revealed some interesting verses about “rude” and led to an …

UNKNOWING WORD OF THE DAY If you had to write a definition of ignorant, what would you write? If you are struggling or questioning your answer then you are defining the word. Don’t take offense. Only the ignorant use the word ignorant as an insult unless, of course, you are speaking of someone who is ignorant about good behavior. The …

NEW MEETS OLD WORD OF THE DAY WordBloom links the present and the past as it cross-references contemporary and old-school resources. As a result, a contemporary person can search for a contemporary word or idea and see what the Bible has to say in his language, the original languages, and other not-so-contemporary but really wise translations and notes. Today’s word …

BUSINESS WORD OF THE DAY Extortion is fraud, oppression or deceitfully gaining. It would probably be beneficial to know what the Bible says about extortion?

ANCIENT WORD WEDNESDAY Today’s word is the ancient word for what most kids hope to do. Sachaq is the Hebrew word for what we consider “playing” and literally means laughing and by implication playing. Unfortunately, just as playing can erode into mockery or “making fun”, sachaq can also mean all of those negative things. We could all benefit by remembering …

NEW WORD OF THE DAY   Funny, fun is a new word to the Bible. It would seem like the older versions of the Bible just aren’t fun or don’t like fun. In fact, fun only appears in the newest versions. Fun is used in many different ways. You might even find some uses of fun funny. Check it out. By …

WHICH CAME FIRST WORD OF THE DAY Do you ever see a name and wonder which came first: the name or the meaning? Today’s word is one of those words. Everyone tells us that Isaac means laughter but our Team asked “Which came first?” and used WordBloom to find the answer. A quick look at Isaac shows three definitions. First …

HAPPY HEIFER WORD OF THE DAY The Bible Study Team wasn’t sure what to expect when they typed in “skip” but they certainly didn’t think they would find a happy heifer. Today’s word is used in relation to happy people but always through the analogy of a happy animal. Check it out.  

BIG BLOOM WORD OF THE DAY You can choose to look at today’s bloom. You can also choose not to look at choice and miss a big bloom. There are 21 different ancient words and 21 choice definitions. There are hip definitions meaning that something is “the special item.” There is the expected definition “to select” and then there are 19 …

WEEKDAY WORD OF THE DAY Yesterday was Thursday and curiously, though Thursday is not a Biblical term at all, WordBloom finds a Thursday. Hmm…  

SWAMP JUMPER WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word may help our newest users leap into next WordBloom dimension. The word “frogs” occurs 14 times in the Bible. But this is cool – when you look at the frogs bloom you will quickly see one ancient Greek and one ancient Hebrew word (tsphardea). If you click on the Hebrew word, you will …

SOUL WINDOW WORD OF THE DAY Most people believe that the forbidden fruit was an apple. They picture Eve taking a big bite of a Red Delicious. The more experienced may know that the apple isn’t forbidden but what does the Bible say about apple? Is the word “apple” even in the Bible? The fruit is in the Bible but apple is translated …

CROSS REFERENCE WORD OF THE DAY Yesterday we left off with the cross-reference “a time to embrace“. Did you search the cross-reference verses? Cross-references always have something to do with the ideas or topic of a verse. The WordBloom team immediately noticed the link between “a time to embrace (a time not to embrace)” and Exodus and WordBloom built a …

AIRSPACE WORD OF THE DAY Every once in a while, the newer translations do something really fun while saying the exact same thing. Today’s word is used in just one of those verses. From conservative to contemporary, hug is only used in two verses and it means exactly what you would think: to embrace, to clasp. Here is the fun verse: …

NOT REALLY WORD OF THE DAY For years, many of you have read “why do you look at the speck in your neighbors eye…” Not really. Today’s word, speck, wouldn’t be translated speck at all.   It would literally read, “why do you look at the twig…” or it would read straw. King James uses the word mote which is a tiny speck …

INCREDIBLE STORY WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word is a random word – just a shot in the dark. Fog is used in the New Century version. The words “thick dark clouds” are used in other versions. However, the great thing about fog is the incredible story in which it is used. In both Scriptures,  2 Samuel 22:12 and Psalms …

ANCIENT WORD WEDNESDAY Have you ever just wanted to stop, to sit, to rest for a while? You may not have known it but you were getting your moshab on. Moshab, pronounced mow-shawb’, is translated literally into “seat” but can mean many things. Figuratively, it means a site, abstractly it is a session, by extension it is an abode, and …

SAME DIFFERENCE WORD OF THE DAY Yesterday revealed that prayer was related to babbling through a common ancient word that means communicate. Today we take a look at another relative: complains. You can be positive that much prayer is complaining but that isn’t always negative. However, today’s word is used in a verse that has nothing to do with prayer. Check …

COMMUNICATE WORD OF THE DAY If anyone ever tells you that you don’t have prayer, tell them to stop babbling. Everyone has a prayer but, funny, most people aren’t confident about their prayers. Funny, many people feel like they are babbling when they pray. Interestingly, babbling and prayer are related through an ancient word that means communicate. So what is the difference …

WEEKEND WORD OF THE DAY Ready for the weekend? Everyone needs a little downtime.  God teaches us to take a day off and Jesus re-told us that truth while he was on earth. Jesus also taught that the day of rest was meant to bless us not bring a bunch of “do and don’t” laws to our day off. Once …

HARD WORKING WORD OF THE DAY One of our Team Members was working late into the night and on a whim type “late night” into WordBloom. Sure enough, the search found a result in Proverbs 31:18 where the Bible describes an incredible wife, mom, and industrious businesswoman. “She knows that what she makes is good. Her lamp burns late into …

GREAT BLOOM WORD OF THE DAY Now and then, we find a really great bloom that includes ideas, verses and related words that are both expected and unexpected. These great blooms can provide hours worth of wandering through the Bible. Whether it is just a few clicks or many blooms, check out what the Bible says about concern.

BUSINESS WORD OF THE DAY It’s Business Word Thursday and today’s word is pelec: the ancient word for scales. There are many uses of scales in the Bible but this Hebrew word refers to a balance or an instrument to weigh things. In Proverbs, pelec is used in a moral reference to God being concerned about people using correct scales …

ANOTHER HUMAN WORD OF THE DAY In the search for what the Bible says about being human, the WordBloom Team saw today’s word in the human bloom. Seeing the Bible is powerful. A quick click took the team to the once used “fleshy“. A second click took them to the other translations of the ancient word. It was interesting to …

US WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word was inspired by us! That’s right people. One of the most difficult things for Christians to deal with is their own humanity. It would be easier if we hadn’t sinned, if we hadn’t tasted the fruit, if we weren’t stained by selfishness but we have experienced all of those things. Christians are humans …

CHARACTER WORD OF THE DAY Like it or not, a big piece of WordBloom’s success is our bloom that lets people see Bible truth for the first time. It is so innovative that most users find less need for commentaries. Today’s bloom is no different. Kind is a great and complex bloom. There are just so many kinds of meanings for …

DUMB WORD OF THE DAY Christians often pitch the idea of “being a lamb of God” as something really special. In all fairness, being a follower of God, a sheep in his fold, is an incredibly safe and wonderful thing. Who better to protect you, feed you, and shear you? However, what many don’t remember is that sheep are dumb …

PROMISE WORD OF THE DAY How would you like to be heard by God? How would you like an audience with the King of the World. Theosebes is used only one time in the entire Bible. It means being God-fearing, honoring him, or respecting him.  It is also one of two conditions under which God promises to listen to man. …

COAST GUARD WORD OF THE DAY Have you seen the movies about the Coast Guard swimmers, pilots, and sailors that not only protect our country’s coasts but protect our people on those coasts? These guardians of us and our coasts spend much of their time doing the less heroic but essential tasks of patrolling, checking, enforcing, guarding, and helping sailors. …

CRY UNCLE WORD OF THE DAY Most of us hear the term “submit” and we think of two kids wrestling in the playground. The kid ending up on top pins the other kid saying, “Say ‘Uncle.” The other kid has a tough decision to make: end the match risking losing face or wait out the persecution. Unfortunately, this decision often …

DIFFERENT WORD OF THE DAY It started as a teenager’s hunt for ice cream and resulted in finding a word that is used differently by three generations of Bible translators. Cream doesn’t appear in the KJV or NASB. Instead, you will find butter and curds. Curds isn’t a common word for the current generation and could easily find itself phonetically mistaken …

RIGHT ON WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word is a common word in the Judeo-Christian world. Righteous describes the quality that is required for man to please God and enter heaven. The simplest definition of righteous is the “state of being right” but the Bible reveals so much more about the word. In the same way, today’s bloom is a righteous bloom. …

1,000 WORD OF THE DAY What’s a legion someone asked? A team member overheard the question and quickly typed it in. Sure enough, today’s word meaning 1,000 soldiers to most was used in the Bible. Who recorded it? Luke and Mark use the term when recording a conversation between Jesus and a demon (or is that many demons?). The demon …

GOD TOSSING WORD OF THE DAY So just on a whim, the Bible Study Team decided to see if ball was in the Bible. Into the search box the word went and out came one verse across all versions (and it wasn’t a good verse). How would you like God to roll you up and “toss thee like a ball” …

BIG BLESSING WORD OF THE DAY In it for the long haul, hauling the trash to the road, hauling a load: all of these just don’t sound fun at all. In fact, they don’t even sound like big blessings at all. Haul is used only one time in the Bible and it isn’t negative at all. And Jesus said to …

SOUND ALIKE WORD OF THE DAY The Bible is full of sound-alike blooms where an ancient word is phonetically close to the English counterpart. Today’s Hebrew counterpart is “pak” and doesn’t sound anything like today’s word. However, vial’s ancient Greek counterpart “phiale” is a definite sound-alike. In the Old Testament, vial held oil for a ceremony or was involved in …

FUN BLOOM WORD OF THE DAY Fun blooms make us happy. Blooms like “deep” show the real depth and greatness of WordBloom. No one could assimilate, so quickly, so accurately or with such ease the depth of meaning of deep. From the obvious meanings to mysterious and, even, to grudge, the meanings could fill up a deep pit. What is …

SING-SONG WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word is a great bloom and perhaps even more interesting because music is at the core of the human experience. One of the things that we thought was funny about the bloom was that “music” doesn’t appear in the King James version. Instead the King James used the word “musick”. What else does the …

INTOXAGATING WORD OF THE DAY Before the English majors send us correction notices, they need to check out today’s word. Replenish is one of those oddly translated Biblical words. You would think it means to refill but it actually means to fill or make full. The New Testament used the word for being filled with wine (intoxicated) when the Spirit …

7o WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word, hadar, is a repeat of the 2o of majestic – well, at least in name. The 2o hadar was a verb strictly meaning swell up and, by application, to favor or honor.  Today’s hadar, the 7o, is an adjective meaning magnificence, ornament, beauty, comeliness, excellency, and glorious. There is only one English word that doesn’t …

7o WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word, megaloprepes, doesn’t really sound too majestic. Sure, the prefix “mega” sounds big but what is a loprepes? This Greek adjective is our 6 o of seven ideas related to majestic. Its proper definition is befitting greatness or excellent and the word is used in only one verse. For he (Jesus) received from God the …

7o WORD OF THE DAY Majestic, the Word of the Week, is related to 7 ancient Biblical words. Today we look at the 5o: ga’own. Like so many of the other degrees of majestic, ga’own can be used in a positive or negative sense. This old Hebrew word can mean swelling, arrogancy, and pomp or pride and excellency. If you are …

7o WORD OF THE DAY Wednesday’s word is our 4o of majestic. Howd‘ the translators use this word other than as majestic?  It can also mean an imposing form and appearance, as well as beauty, comeliness, excellency, glorious, glory,  goodly, and honour.  Check out the uses of this old Hebrew word in the howd bloom.

7o WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word is just one step away from yesterday’s. Hadar, our 3o of majestic, is another verb. Strictly meaning swell up, by application can mean to favor or honor, and be high or proud. There are also few words related to hadar that don’t seem majestic at all: crooked place, countenance and put forth. You …

7o WORD OF THE DAY Majestic, the Word of the Week, is related to 7 ancient Biblical words. Today we look at the 2o of majestic – the Hebrew word adar. Yesterday’s degree of majestic was an adjective and today’s is a verb that rightly means expand. Adar makes its appearance as becoming amazing, wonderful honorable and glorious in three Bible verses. …

CURIOUS WORD OF THE DAY The Team thinks it’s silly that Biblical silly doesn’t really mean what silly means in English. Most of the Biblical meanings have to do with things other than our conception of silly. The Bible often seems silly that way. Curious?

DOG LICKING WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word may not seem to surprising to most Christians. Worship occurs about 100 times in the word for word translations of the Bible and about 350 times in the thought based translations (most of the more contemporary Bibles). Every Christian knows what it is like to worship because all of us have fallen …

CONSIDERATE WORD OF THE DAY This word of the day was dropped off by a good friend of the WordBloom Team. His note was, “I like kindness. I like the bloom but I like the idea more.” The team headed off to see what the Bible had to say about kindness.  We immediately noticed that goodness and gentleness were related …

LIFEBOUY WORD OF THE DAY Have you been sozo? Hope sozo. Sozo is the ancient word for saved that is used in the classic verse Ephesians 2:8-9. God says that we were saved by grace through faith. Sozo is defined to save, deliver, protect, heal, preserve, or make whole. So when you were saved by God, you were also delivered, …

GLUTTONY WORD OF THE DAY Can gluttony be approved by God? Is it really okay to indulge in too much food? Can you really eat freely? The answer is “Yes” if you are in the Garden of Eden where God told his people, “You can eat freely from any tree of the garden except the tree of the knowledge of …

SHHHH WORD OF THE DAY Rumor has it that part of the WordBloom Team is working from the road again, this time headed to Vineyard Christian Camp in Ariton, Alabama. But it isn’t rumor – it’s true. Today’s word is only used a couple of times across most versions of the Bible and always represents a lie. A Biblical rumor is …

RISEN WORD OF THE DAY It’s Easter. It’s the day that Christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. His substitutionary death brought our forgiveness and his risen Life brought new life to all men. It’s Easter. It’s the day we remember God conquering death for us. It’s Easter. He is risen! Arise!

CLEAN CUT WORD OF THE DAY Young men dream of shaving. Older men dream of not shaving. Some men shave more than women. Young women shave with diligence. Older women take the winter off. Some women don’t shave at all. Shaving had significance in the Bible. Not shaving had a different significance. Shaving your head and sometimes more was a …

YOKED WORD OF THE DAY Old farmers understand the phrase “equally yoked” because they remember plowing with oxen or mules side by side. If one mule was stronger or bigger, it was more difficult to make a straight line in the field. In Biblical teaching, either the weak believer will be drug away from his faith by the strong unbeliever …

OBVIOUS ANCIENT WORD WEDNESDAY Every once in a while, the WordBloom Bible Study Team stumbles by an incredibly obvious word amongst the great variety of ancient Biblical words. Have you already sorted through the different options and figured out the meaning of today’s Greek word? If you haven’t guessed correctly then in the next sentence you might find another definition. …

REALLY? WORD OF THE DAY Do you ever want to say, “Really!?!” when faced by incredibly unbelievable actions or words. If so, consider this your personal word of the day. One use of the ancient word means incredible thing in the sense of unbelievable. Another way of using that ancient word means disbelief, as in a person who doesn’t believe. …

RED EYE WORD OF THE DAY The WordBloom Team just returned on a redeye from the successful debut of WordBloom at BibleTech 2010. The guys report that the sleepless travel was well worth it for the future and the WordBloom community. Sleepless is another in a line of once used words, appearing only in 2 Corinthians 11:27 in the NASB …

RAVISHING CAKES WORD OF THE DAY Live from BibleTech 2010 in Silicon Valley, the WordBloom Team would like to give a shout out to all of the incredible linguists, programmers, information designers, teachers and creative people who have made and will continue to make the Bible increasingly accessible to the world. Intelligent is the adjective of the day. Intelligent makes a …

TRAVEL WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word was very relevant to the WordBloom Bible Study and Data Team members who rushed to Atlanta Airport.. They are headed to Silicon Valley for the industry debut of WordBloom. By the way, the team made it to Bible Tech 2010. Check out the Biblical uses of the word “rushed.” You may be surprised at …

IF ONLY WORD OF THE DAY We love crazy words, unexpected words and new words. Peradventure, a new word for many, is one of those old words that is definitely finds itself unexpected by modern readers. Today’s word is an older English word used only in the King James and it doesn’t really have a specific Hebrew or Greek definition. …

ANCIENT WORD WEDNESDAY We teach emerging leaders to never say, “Never.” Especially, never say, “Never-ever.” Even more, don’t dare say, “Not ever.” The wise young and the worn old all get this simple truth: saying never is a certain invitation to what you consider impossible. Interestingly, there is an ancient Greek word for never-ever. Check out mepote and check out the …

AGITATING WORD OF THE DAY The newer versions of the Bible are stirring up some trouble with the King James Bible by using stirring instead of strove. But even the newer versions strive against each other, never once stirring the same way. None of the five uses of stirring in the New American Standard occur in the same verses as …

TEAMWORK WORD OF THE DAY There are some who believe that Christianity and religion are personal issues. There are others that believe that they can best live out their walk with God alone. There may be an argument for some alone time to hear from God, to slow down, but all of us have to answer Hebrews 10:25 “do not …

NEARSIGHTED WORD OF THE DAY Do you struggle seeing things in the distance? If so, an eye doctor can probably help. However, if you have trouble with being spiritually short sighted and find yourself missing the direction, then God has provided a simple answer in 2 Peter 1:5-8.  The once used phrase, short-sighted (NASB 2 Peter 1:9), predicts the outcome …

IMPOSSIBLE! WORD OF THE DAY Truly appreciating Easter requires that man try to comprehend what seems impossible, implausible, incredible. That God came to earth as a man. That other men crucified Him. That He let them so that he could save them. That He rose from the dead. Perhaps nothing captures this impossibility, implausibility, and incredibility quite as well as …

DID YOU KNOWORD OF THE DAY The did you know word series reveals words that have surprising applications, definitions or uses. What does the Bible have to say about repenting? You may be surprised. Most people think that repenting is something that man does when he returns to God or realizes for the first time he is wrong. However, in …

ANCIENT WORD WEDNESDAY After stumbling across today’s word, our Bible Study Team was left scratching their heads and trying to decide who to call or how much time to take on Google. Could it be that L. Frank Baum knew his Hebrew when he titled “The Wizard of Oz“? Oz is an ancient word meaning force, security, majesty, praise, boldness,  loud, might, …

CROWN WORD OF THE DAY Recently, a Wordbloom Bible Study Team member was studying Isaiah after hearing the song “Beauty for Ashes.” Looking up Isaiah 61:3 was easy enough and then he noticed in the Bible panes that the New American Standard used “garland” instead of “beauty.” The New Century used “crown.” Now curious, he hovered over the definition (grey …

ONE USE WORD OF THE DAY Now and then you find a word that is only used once, in one version of the Bible. Most often it seems to be the very old or the very new translations that have one use words, which kind of makes sense. Hello is used one time in one translation: 2 Kings 4:29 New …

CROSSOVER WORD OF THE DAY The idea of crossing over was used long before the crucifixion of Christ to foreshadow the deliverance of God’s people from less to more, worse to better, and from sin to life. As the Easter season draws near, cross becomes a word of increasing focus. It was at the cross of Christ’s crucifixion that cross crossed …

OPPOSITE WORD OF THE DAY Are you mello? Today’s word reminds us of things like listening to the waves, relaxing, sitting on the porch at the end of the day. Funny thing though, the Bible uses the word entirely differently. The Greek word “mello” means to intend, to be about to do, or necessity. Related English words are active words …

CONTEMPORARY WORD OF THE DAY Certain words that are very common to us are rarely used in older translations. Today’s word, success, is a great example. Success is used one time in the KJV, 7 times in the NASB (1960s – 1980s) and 31 times in the NCV (late 20th century). When you find a contemporary word, you may find it …

EXTENDED CHANGE WORD OF THE DAY Last week’s theme of “change” extends itself for one more day because as you may have noticed, the change in our network servers resulted in one error: the words of the day didn’t get delivered for three days. Its time for that to change. “A right time” may seem like a phrase but it …

ODDBALL CHANGE WORD OF THE DAY Every day we have focused on a different word related to the word “changed.” Until today, all of the relations have seemed pretty apparent. A quick click on tumbling displays its definition then everything becomes clear. Haphak, the ancient word from which tumbling is translated, means “to turn about or over.” Tumbling is used …

QUICK CHANGE WORD OF THE DAY It can be really interesting to look up a word or follow a word a definition just to see in which verses it appears. Today’s word, disguise , appears in three common verses in the King James and New American Standard (1 Kings 14:2, 1 Kings 22:30, 2 Chronicles 18:29). The New Century only uses …

BUSINESS WORD OF THE DAY We love Business Word Thursdays. Everyone has to deal with the business of money, finance, work, management and such. What does the Bible say about business planning? Plenty. Today’s word is tied to Proverbs 15:28: “The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, But the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.” Thinking …

ANCIENT WORD OF CHANGE Today we change it up with a Hebrew word related to change. The English words could have been backside of, transmutation, fold, or turning but the word is muwcabbah. From the Hebrew root muwcab (winding) the link to changed is easily seen. But how does the changed related to inclosed or set? Interestingly the idea of …

CHANGED ESTEEM WORD OF THE DAY Seven days of change continues with Tuesday’s word of change. Searching for changed gives you most of what you expect but there are a few unexpected words related to change. Today’s word, boast, is one of those unexpected words. The idea that relates boast with change is that something changes the esteem or attitude …

MATURING WORDS OF THE DAY Ready for a week of change? Well, whether we are ready or not, change will come to each of us this week. Some changes come fast and others, like a change of opinion, take longer. We will inevitably change our opinions as we mature. Radical ideas will find become truths or be discarded as youthful …

INCREDIBLE WORD OF THE DAY Launching off yesterday’s word, greatness was found by team while researching the awesome, incredible God that we serve. Greatness is used several ways in the Bible (check them out here) but one of the greatest ways in in application to God and his power. Phrases like “the greatness of His name” and “the greatness of …

GREAT NAME WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word is used in Matthew 12:23 while quoting Isaiah 7:14. Interestingly, today’s word is spelled differently there. Emmanuel means “God with us” and is one of the descriptive titles applied to Jesus. Some people get confused as to why Matthew 12:21 would say that they should call God’s son Jesus when Isaiah says, …

BUSINESS WORD OF THE DAY The objective of business is to reap. Even not-for-profit (NFP) companies desire to reap. The NFP model avoids taxes, doesn’t pay dividends but can still earn on investments allowing more cash to flow to the object of the NFP. A business that does not reap does not succeed. What does the Bible say about reaping? …

ANCIENT WORD WEDNESDAY A college student recently set up her own version of an altar of remembrance much like the Israelites did to remember the glory and greatness of the Lord their God. The focus of the remembrance was an Hebrew word written phonetically as “gadar.” Gadar is related to the verbs wall in, wall around, close up, fence up,  hedge, …

MOTHER OF SIN WORD OF THE DAY According to James, today’s word is the mother of sin when he says “lust..gives birth to sin..” Lust is most often tied to sexual discussions but the Bible identifies all surrenders to temptation as lust. The object of lust could be physical desire but also wealth, power, fame and so much more. There …

COMBO WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word makes its appearance four times in the King James and once in the New American Standard Bible. In the King James it is twice the English translation of a Hebrew word and twice the translation of a Greek word. The NASB only translates the Hebrew. So why is it the combo word of …

HOME AGAIN WORD OF THE DAY One of our WordBloom team members just returned from a Mexico mission trip singing, “I’ve been to the desert on a horse with no name. It felt good to be out of the rain…” Those lines were from his first record purchase titled “A Horse with No Name” by America. He was telling us …

COME BACK WORD OF THE DAY WordBloom has several goals. One of them is to create an interesting and intuitive interface that allows young people to learn while having fun exploring the Bible. The Bible Study team is amazed time after time as young people enter one verse to study a devotion and are still hunting around thirty minutes later. …

TEEN WORD OF THE DAY WordBloom has several goals. One of them is to create an interesting and intuitive interface that allows young people to learn while having fun exploring the Bible. The Bible Study team is amazed time after time as young people enter one verse to study a devotion and are still hunting around thirty minutes later. Today’s …

BUSINESS WORD OF THE DAY Gain is used in good ways and bad ways in the Bible. Gain is done with integrity and without integrity in life. A man once said, “Take a man who doesn’t believe in God but get him to live by the book of Proverbs, and he will be a good man even though he will …

ANCIENT WORD WEDNESDAY While the Bible Study Team was groping around for a fun ancient word for Ancient Word Wednesday someone typed in “AS: *ash” (AS: for advanced search *ash for all words beginning with any characters and ending in ‘ash’). Up pops today’s word, gashash, which means “to grope about” – funny. Check out the Scriptures and cross-references.

BULLSEYE WORD OF THE DAY Funny that the Biblical words for target all have to do with fighting, shields and spears. But the general idea of target really hasn’t changed.  A spear hits the target its good.  A spear misses the target its bad. Roll forward to today and target word can be taken two ways: good and bad. Having a …

FOOD FOR THOUGHT WORD OF THE DAY One of our younger WordBloomers submitted this word of the day which according to Isaiah 24:20 is less than stable, “The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard And it totters like a shack, For its transgression is heavy upon it…” Interestingly, all around this country and, even more, around the world …

FOUL WORD OF THE DAY Have you ever been religiously fouled? Defile makes a good (can we say that?) bloom with 15 definitions from ancient words. One of those ancient words, tame, was being studied by the donor of today’s word. Tame‘ means foul in a religious sense. So we ask again? Have you ever felt defiled in a religious …

GIGANCTIC WORD OF THE DAY Have you ever looked under your bed just to make sure that there wasn’t anything creepy under there? Even as an adult, have you flipped on the light and cautiously opened the creaky door of your closet? The movie “Monsters” made light of this crazy obsession with monsters in the dark. Yes, the Bible has …

GOD SIZED WORD OF THE DAY A quick look at today’s word and you will see that almost all things “glorious” are God-sized things: like the gospel, the Lord, our salvation, and our God are glorious. The importance of this word and its very definition seem to grow out of the words to which this adjective is attached. It’s a glorious …

BUSINESS WORD OF THE DAY Setting the right price may difficult for many small businesses. Finding this elusive figure can require much trial, error and research but find it you must. Too much and some may not buy it.  Too little and some may not respect it. Funny, consumers also struggle to find the price and often believe that they …

ANCIENT WORD WEDNESDAY It’s just a fun word Wednesday. Say it out loud. Yabbashah. Say is in a whisper. Yabbashah. Say it. Yabbashah, yabbashah, yabbashah. What does it mean? Yabbashah is the word for a specific kind of ground – dry ground. It is used in the creation story of Genesis where dry ground appears. It is used to describe …

SINGULAR WORD OF THE DAY Harmonious people are singular in mind, singular in heart, and singular in their goal to live peacefully and contented. Harmonious is, as well, a word that is used only once in WordBloom. It appears in 1 Peter 3:8 in the New American Standard Bible being translated from the Greek word homophron (also only used a …

ESSENCE WORD OF THE DAY The Bible teaches that the essence of life is in the blood and today’s word is a combination of two ancient words for life and blood. Lifeblood specifically describes the type of blood that when shed causes death. The New American Standard Bible uses the term 4 times while the King James uses “blood of …

TSK WORD OF THE DAY The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (TSK) is one of the most comprehensive, most trusted cross-reference books ever produced.  It takes every verse and ties it to topics and to other verses with the same topics. With WordBloom’s electronic version of the TSK, there is no more page flipping to find the ideas and verses related …

TAKE THE BLAME WORD OF THE DAY You may have been called the scapegoat if you have ever taken the blame for the group,. However, you weren’t really the scapegoat unless you were innocent. Today’s word, like so many phrases, finds its roots in the Bible in an Old Testament Hebrew ritual. When seeking forgiveness for sin, the blood of …

OPPOSITE UNDERSTANDING WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word comes from the original language word apistos. Our Bible Study team noticed this word and had to do a double check.  Surprisingly, many of the related words all have negative ideas like unbelief, infidel, and unbelief.  However, apistos does mean incredible – specifically, incredible thing.  The ancient languages of the Bible are …

BAD BUSINESS WORD OF THE DAY Thursday is all about business Bible words or Bible words about business.  This word is anything but good business. Just try it in an interview – shake. Just try it in a sales pitch – shake. To shake in business, unless it is a ploy, is a disaster. The Bible backs this moral issue when …

IMPLIED DESTINATION WORD OF THE DAY There is an implied theme to the last several day’s words and today’s word stays with that theme.  How does course relate to slide, totter, and move? All of those words imply a destination or a course. Of course, course is a synonym of the word slide linked through and ancient definition that includes the idea …

EMOTIONALLY RELOCATED WORD OF THE DAY Greek and Hebrew are the ancient languages used to write almost all of the Bible. You often get interesting results when you take these ancient languages and translate them into English.  Today’s word, moved, gives such results when it means everything from “moved emotionally” to “relocated”. Moved is an incredible and almost overwhelming bloom …

STABILITY WORD OF THE DAY We all desire stability, constancy, and a sense of security. Totter, the opposite of those ideas, is used three ways in the Bible. The first affirms our security saying that God designed the foundations of the world not to totter.  The second records that leaders, not walking with God, will totter drunkenly.  The third speaks …

SNOW AND ICE WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word goes out to all those Americans just south of the Mason Dixon Line that have found themselves not-so-prepared and buried in 6-12 inches of snow. No snow tires and little experience result in 360s and power-slides for many Southerners. The South is just not very prepared for the challenge of snow. …

CLEANSING WORD OF THE DAY Hyssop is at the center of many of the Biblical rituals and symbols for cleansing. Bunches of hyssop branches were used to sprinkle everything from priests at ordination to lepers who had been healed.  A longer branch of hyssop held the sponge that would have been Christ’s last drink on the cross. There isn’t much …

WHITE DEATH WORD OF THE DAY Most people think heat when they think of the Middle East and Israel but snow is a common Biblical illustration. As with any illustration, it worked because the people of Biblical times knew the cold of snow and frost.  There are only a few literal references to snow with many indirect references like “white …

LOANER WORD OF THE DAY The investment banker might know today’s word and anyone who has borrowed money has paid it. Usury is the interest that you pay to the lender when you borrow money. Related words are lending, loan, creditor, and debt. In Biblical times, they did not say that the borrower paid usury, but that the lender exacted …

MESSENGER WORD OF THE DAY Since the dawn of time there have been messengers.  Some have run while others rode, drove and flew. Today, we have overnight messengers, bicycle messengers, personal messenger and instant messengers.  Its Ancient Word Wednesday and there is no greater or older messenger than aggelos.  Looking nothing like its English counterpart, aggelos is the Greek word …

BOLOGNA SWAP WORD OF THE DAY Did you ever swap lunches with a friend? Bologna for peanut butter? Apples for cookies? Trading what you have for what someone else has is the cornerstone of capitalism. Chapmen are professionals making their living doing just that – trading.  You will find chapmen, and, the more contemporary, tradesmen in the history of the …

OFF COURSE WORD OF THE DAY New leaders often find themselves off course having been distracted by unforeseen trials, challenges and more often, success.  It was with this in mind that a member of our Bible Study Team decided to search WordBloom for the word “veer.”  It was a long shot, but veer did show up in a definition of …

OVERLOOKED WORD OF THE DAY If you think today’s word is spelled incorrectly, you will find yourself incorrect. Cieled is an older English word used in the King James that means cover, over, overlaid, or paneled. In the Bible, cieled, and its synonyms, are used almost exclusively in regard to architecture or craftsmanship. Probably most familiar is the “cieled houses” that …

WAVE DASHING WORD THURSDAY A member of the WordBloom Bible Study Team was being tempted to break the Tenth Commandment when he typed in today’s word of the day.  He was dreaming of a wave of warmth, the sound of waves, and the sun when we caught him saying, “I want to become a Snowbird and spend the winters on …

BUSINESS WORD THURSDAY When you look at today’s business word, you will see how great wisdom today is consistent with great wisdom in the Bible. There are few words as powerful in business as goal. Successful or unsuccessful, goals are the connection between vision and strategy. A great goal is smart: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely and the verses attached …

FAIR WEATHER WORD OF THE DAY Who would have ever thought that the Bible could be as hip as it is about today’s word.  Golden is an adjective that is tied to gold, rat (the golden rats offered to God – check it out), wedges, fine and belt.  But that isn’t what makes golden so hip.  It is that golden …

ANCIENT WORD OF THE DAY Hamartano is the New Testament Greek word for sin.  It reminds you of harmful or harm which exactly what we do to ourselves when we trespass, offend, or sin. People have reaped what they sow for millennia.  The Old Testament Hebrew word, chata, doesn’t sound so harmful but the sin is the same.

FIRST WORD OF THE DAY The Data Team recently received a request asking about the different names used for God’s people in the Old Testament. One of their questions was about the title Jews for the Hebrew or Israelite people.  A quick search for today’s word showed the first occurrence in 2 Kings. Interestingly, it is only found in one …

VALUE DRIVEN WORD OF THE DAY In culinary circles, it is call resting.  In cards, it is called holding.  In business, it is called proper timing. In education, it is called patience.  No matter the circumstance, wait holds the idea of an intentional act. Regardless of the circumstance, we choose to wait. Waiting takes a certain confidence that it is …

STRONG WALL WORD OF THE DAY So yesterday’s word was hope.  Confidence is one of the synonyms that you see surrounding hope and there is a good reason. If hope is essential to balance the challenges of life, confidence is the strong wall that sits on that foundation. When we have hope, we have confidence. When our hope is a sure …

MAGNETIC WORD OF THE DAY Positive and negative attract.  Two magnets placed near each other will spin because opposite poles attract. It is the same way with today’s word. Hope is attracted to challenge and desperation.  We often bemoan the hard times that come in our lives but it is in those times that hope shines bright.  Hope is essential …

CORPORATE WORD OF THE DAY WordBloom is, without a doubt, a great resource for planned study but, it is also an incredible resource to begin a new study.  For example, as a CEO prepared to attend a Christian CEO group in Atlanta, he asked, “I wonder what study would be relevant to these guys?”  His answer was a word relevant …

FRIEND WORD OF THE DAY Today’s word goes out to a great supporter and friend of the WordBloom Team – Zack.  His name is spelled in a slightly more modern way but his story is pretty much the same as the Bible Zacchaeus.  Zacchaeus dedicated his life to God upon meeting Christ, made it right with everyone he ever wronged …