The Importance of Context in Interpreting Scripture

The word by itself means nothing. You need that word to appear in relationship to other words and also you need some sort of context. There are literally 50 or so possibilities in a normal good collegiate dictionary. Just look it up for R-U-N. Is it something that's faster than a walk? Is it trying to win a political office to run for president? Is it a machine that's operating? The machine is running. Run that machine over there. It's running, something has run all over the table. Don't run into the wall. Now we're getting into adding to all that word level context.