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New TestamentBiblical Languages
Evangelical
Does a word have a "literal" meaning?
Theologian
Bill Mounce
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4.19
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25 September 2017
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17 December 2025
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I want to challenge the notion that a word has a "literal" meaning. They don't. They have a semantic range, a "bundle" of meanings, but don't think that the gloss you memeorized in first year Greek is the "literal" meaning of a word. What is the "literal" meaning of the word "key"?