Hey, it's Garen, and the episode that we want to play for you now is actually not from this podcast.

It's from another project called Bible Words, a podcast where we look at different biblical

terms and try to understand what they meant in the original Hebrew understanding with some of

the American cultural additions stripped away.

And one of the words that we looked at was the term justice,

which challenges our typical American understanding of what the Bible teaches about justice, crime, and punishment.

So to give you a feel, we want to play this episode for you now.

And if you like what you hear, check out Bible words wherever you listen to podcasts.

We hope you enjoy the episode.

Words can have multiple meanings, and most words don't usually have just one simple meaning.

They can mean a variety of things depending on the context.

Maybe a good example of this is the word rock. It can seem straightforward, but it's actually a

pretty vague word. Rock can be a type of music or a diamond, a way of holding a child in your arms,

or a chunk of dirt. And even if we do understand what someone means by a word, like which definition they're

using, there's still some ambiguity.

Like, if I tell you to imagine a rock, what picture comes to mind?

How big of a rock do you imagine?

I picture something palm-sized. Yeah, and I'm guessing each

listener is picturing a slightly different rock, so even though I use one word, there is still a range

of what it can be describing. And most words work like this. Most words have a range of possible

meanings, but also words have meanings that sometimes overlap.

So a small rock could be called a pebble and a large rock could be called a boulder, but I can still describe both as a rock.

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