{"id":9,"date":"2005-08-25T03:18:18","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T07:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manthano.blogzor.com\/2005\/08\/25\/so-whats-manthano-anyway\/"},"modified":"2005-08-25T03:18:18","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T07:18:18","slug":"so-whats-manthano-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"So what&#8217;s &#8220;manthano&#8221; anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>manthano<\/em> &#8211; koine greek for &#8220;I am learning.&#8221;  That&#8217;s what this blog is about, what I am learning &#8211; be it about the Bible, computers, etc.<\/p>\n<p>So why koine Greek?  Koine Greek is the language I am learning right now at <a rel=\"my school\" title=\"BJU\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bju.edu\">school<\/a>.  I&#8217;m leaming it so I can study the Bible (at least the NT) in it&#8217;s original language.  I have had a year of it so far, and I will continue learning it this year.<\/p>\n<p>Another cool word is <em>mathetes<\/em>.  This word is the noun form of <em>manthano<\/em>.  It literally means &#8220;learner.&#8221;  In the Bible it is usually translated &#8220;disciple.&#8221;  It is used of the original 12 as well as others who followed Christ.  That is what I desire to be, one who follows Christ, a <em>mathetes<\/em>. I am still learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>manthano &#8211; koine greek for &#8220;I am learning.&#8221; That&#8217;s what this blog is about, what I am learning &#8211; be it about the Bible, computers, etc. So why koine Greek? Koine Greek is the language I am learning right now at school. I&#8217;m leaming it so I can study the Bible (at least the NT) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[16,25,63,96],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-my-life","tag-bible","tag-christ","tag-manthano","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}