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Naked Bible 031: Studying the Original Languages of the Bible: Exegetical Fallacies

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How to Brand Yourself

The totality transfer fallacy is the attempt to import all meanings of a word into any given passage. Languages do not work this way, and context is everything in language. The Hebrew word coal means "all" or "every," but it doesn't mean anything like English coal. We wouldn't take a word like spoiled or fetching or brand and make a list, like I've done here below with English board.

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