TATTOOING, CUTTING, PRINTING, MARKING

 

Hebrew

cutting       seret sareteth         incision, cutting

print           nathan                 to apply, print, put

mark          kethobeth             a letter or other mark branded on the
                                               skin, mark

                   qa sqa                  an incision or gash, mark

         

Leviticus 19:28Ye shall not (lo lo loh not, no, never, of a truth) make (nathan  to give, put, make, add, apply, make, print) any cuttings (se ret sar eteth an incision, cutting) in your flesh (basar  flesh, body, person, nakedness, skin) for the dead (nephesh a breathing person, body, dead), nor print (nathan to apply, print, put) any marks  upon you (kethobeth a letter or other mark branded on the skin, mark; qa sqa an incision or gash, mark): I am (aniy I, as for me) the Lord. (yehovah  self Existent or eternal, Jehovah, Jewish national name of God, the Lord.”

 

Leviticus 21:5Thou shall not (lo lo lo no, never) make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor (lo lo loh not, no, never) make (sar at to gash, cut in pieces, make cuttings, pieces) any cuttings (se ret sir teeth an incision, cutting) in their flesh (bazar  flesh, body, person, nakedness, skin).  They shall be (ayah be, become, come to pass, temple committed) holy (radish sacred, holy) unto their God (Elohim the supreme God, God):”

Greek                          

body                    soma a sound whole, body

temple                 naos dwelling place, inner sanctuary, holy of
                             holies

Holy Spirit          hagios sacred, pure, blameless, consecrated,
                             holy;
                             pneuma
spirit, Holy Spirit

I Corinthians 3:16-17 “Know ye not that ye are the temple (naos) of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth (oikeo to occupy a house, reside, inhabit, dwell) in you?  If any man defile (phtheiro to pine or waste, shrivel or wither, to spoil, to ruin, deprave, corrupt, defile, destroy) the temple (naos) of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple (naos) of God is holy, which temple (naos) ye are.”

I Corinthians 6:19-20 “What?  Know ye not that your body (soma) is the temple (naos) of the Holy Spirit (hagios  pneuma) which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body (soma), and in your spirit (pneuma), which are God’s” (Also see other passages as II Corinthians 6:14-18)

 

NOTE: In addition to the above Greek word naos that is defined as dwelling, inner sanctuary, holy of holies,  another Greek word for temple is hieron and is defined as an edifice temple, sacred, edifice as in Matthew 21:12 “And Jesus went into the Temple (hieron) of God…”

Thus according to the definition of the Greek word naos, the believer’s body becomes the dwelling place, inner sanctuary, Holy of Holies of the Spirit rather than dwelling in a hieron Temple.

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