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Formless and void rather than chaos?

Formless and void rather than chaos?

The Hebrew words תֹהוּ and וָבֹהוּ are translated to empty/formless and void in Genesis 1, but that isn’t what they mean.
In my research, I have found that one of the two words is unknown, and the other means chaos or waste. Throughout my …

What does the word harpagmos mean in Philippians 2:6?

What does the word harpagmos mean in Philippians 2:6?

MOUNCE renders it:

who, although he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with
God a thing to be grasped,

Westcott and Hort / [NA27 variants] ὃς ἐν μορφῇ θεοῦ ὑπάρχων οὐχ
ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ,

Whereas …