2006 - Touchet Baptist Church, Touchet, Washington - Pastor Mike Paulson - 2006 Expounding the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26 - with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II Timothy 2:15 |
Acts 27 - swimming or floating? |
See Introduction
for a detailed description of this series!
See Part
I for more emphasis on the progressive buildup of understanding
within the KJB!
See Part
II on the real meaning of the word
'charity'
found with in the KJB, not by going "back to the Greek!"
Part
III on the Biblical definitions of words: Bless;
Gospel; Evangelist and
Crisping Pin!
See Part
IV for how the meaning of words is
affected by Phonaesthesia and spelling!
See Part
V for differences in music/musick; Ceiling; shall/will; which/who;
that/which/who; alway/always; prevent/precede;
ensue/pursue' entreat/treat!
See Part
VI for Nothing more comforting than the sound of the King James
Bible!
See Part
VII for more ways of defining words within the King James Bible
itself!
See VIII
for Parallelism and Polish!
Rightly Dividing right on down to the very words and letters!
Part IX Syllables - Rhythm and Feet |
We will be looking through pages 342 - 356.
G Riplinger makes an interesting approach to rhythm of the syllables
in the KJB.
Fascinating!
also, note the verse numbers...
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II Timothy 3:16 | scripture | inspiration |
Psalm 33:6 | word | breath |
John 6:63 | word | spirit |
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Job 33:4 | Spirit | breath |
Job 27:3 | breath | spirit |
Rhythmic Patterning
The words in the KJB, given by the breath of God, match a rhythm pattern
of breathing and emphasis - with high and low points.
This is one of the areas the KJB took as a polish from the Bishops.
Free verse poetry began by "Borrowing from the repetitions of the KJB." Today's poetry's 'subtle rhythms owe a great deal to the Bible - even our public oratory followed the cadences of the language of the KJB. Why? Because the King James Bible was the one book in most households." Willard Spiegelman, How to Read and Understand Poetry, Par II, pp. 2,4. Harvard Ph.D. recipient and Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University.Those who love their KJB will reverence and memorize it more as they discover the melody and clean rhythm in their own Bibles.
Syllables
Sentences are made up of words and words are made up of syllables.
Accents take place on a particular syllable.
A sense of rhythm is achieved when these accented syllables are placed
at equally proportioned intervals.
Feet
The meter is made up of individual units called feet. The feet
are composed of syllables.
Combinations of accented and unaccented syllables are called 'feet.' There are dozens and dozens of types of feet. The following are the most common: