{"id":8204,"date":"2016-02-26T07:18:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=8204"},"modified":"2016-02-26T07:18:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T15:18:13","slug":"concept-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/concept-of-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"The concept of grace rooted in the Torah, not the NT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Exodus 33:12\u201313, <i>Grace.<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i>(Heb. <i>chen<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>meaning \u201cfavor, grace, charm, acceptance\u201d). The Hebrew word <i>chen <\/i>(found 69 times in the Tanakh), which is translated as <i>grace,<\/i> in this verse is equivalent to the Greek word <i>charis<\/i>, which is found 156 times in the Testimony of Yeshua and is translated as <i>grace<\/i> 130 times in the KJV.<\/p>\n<p><i> <\/i>The equivalency of these two words is confirmed by the translators of the Septuagint (the Greek Tanakh) who used <i>charis <\/i>in place of <i>chen <\/i>when translating the Hebrew Tanakh into Greek beginning in the third century B.C. According to the <i>TWOT<\/i>, in the vast majority of occurrences of <i>chen <\/i>in the Tanakh, the focus of attention is not on the giver, but on the recipient. The emphasis is on the relationship of the superior to an inferior (e.g., a king to his subjects). What this teaches us is that despite sin and rebellion against him, YHVH (the king) is gracious (to humans, his subjects).<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what many in the church have been led to believe, <i>the grace of Elohim<\/i> is a very prominent theme in the Tanakh. Examples of this include Noah who found grace in YHVH\u2019s eyes (Gen 6:8), or the children of Israel although dead in their sins in Egypt and deserving of YHVH\u2019s wrath, they were saved by the blood of the lamb. 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The Hebrew word chen (found 69 times in the Tanakh), which is translated as grace, in this verse is equivalent to the Greek word charis, which is found 156 times in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/concept-of-grace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[58,398,259,381],"class_list":["post-8204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-readings","tag-exodus","tag-grace","tag-new-testament","tag-old-testament"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The concept of grace rooted in the Torah, not the NT | Hoshana Rabbah Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/concept-of-grace\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The concept of grace rooted in the Torah, not the NT | Hoshana Rabbah Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Exodus 33:12\u201313, Grace. 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