Holy Land
Lost in translation
Bible idioms
Who’s your daddy?
Swear in the bible
400
The apostle Paul was from this city.
Tarsus
400
Martin Luther's translation of the Bible helped spread the "New High" version of this language
German
400
To have one’s “eyes weighed down” means to be…
Sleepy
400
This son of Noah fathered Canaan.
Ham
400
This man tells Esau that he must "swear to me this day" to sell his birthright
Jacob
800
“Gehenna” refers to this location outside of Jerusalem.
Valley of Hinnom
800
Used to refer to the first 5 books of the Bible, this Hebrew word is usually translated as "law"
Torah
800
“The four winds” is an idiom referring to what?
The four cardinal directions
800
The first 9 chapters of this bible book are dedicated to genealogy
1 chronicles
800
In Isaiah 45:23 Jehovah says, "To me every knee will bend, Every" this body part "will swear loyalty"
Tongue
1200
In 607 bce, most Israelites were exiled to Babylon and this other nation.
Egypt
1200
Used to refer to the first 5 books of the Bible, this Greek word is usually translated as "five rolls"
Pentateuch
1200
This idiom originates from the spurious passage in John 8 about an adulterous woman.
Cast the first stone
1200
Righteous Hezekiah’s father was this wicked man.
Ahaz
1200
Denying Jesus for the third time, this person "began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom you speak"
Peter
1600
This period of peace the Roman Empire facilitated the spreading of the good news.
Pax Romana
1600
The abbreviation “LXX” refers to this translation of the Hebrew Scriptures.
Septuagint
1600
The English idiom “by the skin of my teeth”, among others, can be traced back to this bible translation
KJV
1600
Mephibosheth, the crippled son of this man, was invited to dine at the table of David
jonathan
1600
Hebrews 6 says that when God made a promise to this patriarch, "because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself"
Abraham
2000
In 1537, this man produced the most accurate map of the holy land of his time. He would later produce the most commonly used world map projection.
Gerardus Mercator
2000
In the KJV, numbers 23:22 refers to this mythical beast.
Unicorn 🦄
2000
This Hebrew idiom, found in 1 Samuel 25:22 refers to a male person.
One who urinates against a wall
2000
Israel’s genealogical archives were destroyed in this year.
70 ce
2000
The book of Jeremiah asks, "Can you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make sacrifices to" this Canaanite god?
Baal