Scientific ACCURACIES in the Bible

[Drich]

Isaiah uses the Hebrew word for ball at one point in the book, which would have been much more suiting if he was referring to earth as a sphere (never mind the fact that it apparently didn't convince anyone at that time who believed Isaiah that the earth was spherical.) The word Isaiah uses is used one other time in the old testament (Proverbs 8:27) and refers to a flat disk.

Until you look at what the actual word means.
tsĕnephah Pronunciation tsen·ā·fä' (Key)
Root Word (Etymology)
From צָנַף (H6801)
1) winding, thing wrapped, ball

The word describes more how the object is made, rather than the shape. To uuse this word to descibe the Earth is to say it is like a big ball of yarn.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexi...6802&t=KJV

1) Like Tegh posted, there are 2 hebrew words for circle, one meaning circle one meaning sphere. In this case, the word meaning circle is used. Even if the word meaning sphere was used, it would still be wrong, as the actual shape of the Earth is an oblate spheroid. I'd expect a "close enough for the time" response for this point, but seeming as christians believe their book is handed down from god, who is all-knowing, they should be able to get it correct.

As I have already pointed out this is false.

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Oh you beat me to it lol. Remember to note that Isaiah did use the word for ball as the word for ball at another place in Isaiah. So it's not as though the word wasn't familiar to him. And, as I said earlier in this post, the word he used was used at another place in the old testament as a flat circle.

This is the passage you are talking about:Isa 22:18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee [like] a ball into a large country there shalt thou die and there the chariotsof thy glory [shall be] the shame of thy lord's house.

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Perhaps the problem is Mr. Loftus was looking up the wrong word. The Word acconding to Strong Concordance is:chuwg
Gesenius's Lexicon defines it as Circle, Sphere, Compass/Use of the Arch or vault of the Sky.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexi...2329&t=KJV

As for 'chug' I guess it can mean anything Mr.loftus wanted it to mean.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/tr...chug&t=KJV

Gesenius's Lexicon

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Appearently not.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/tr...here&t=KJV

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http://biblos.com/isaiah/40-22.htm
http://concordances.org/hebrew/chug_2329.htm

That shows the Hebrew word used in Isaiah 40:22, and how the only other place it was used in the old testament was used to describe a flat circle.

http://biblos.com/isaiah/22-18.htm
http://concordances.org/hebrew/kaddur_1754.htm

In Isaiah 22:18 Isaiah uses a completely different word that clearly means ball as in spherical object.

See the above post. The word describes yarn or twine, or the process in which it is made, It does not directly point to shape.