The details of chronology will be considered in the study of Old and New Testament history.
The explanation for the extra long lives of ancient personalities is found in the Urantia Book UB 77:2.10 The lunar month of 28 days was called a year. Thus a man living 900 years really lived only about 70 years— “three score years and ten”—a ripe old age for those days.
There follows a list of words. giving their meaning as used in the Bible:
Addicted—to be devoted to something.
Allege—to produce evidence.
Attendance—to pay attention.
Barbarian—any non-Greek-speaking person.
Bowels—heart-felt emotion.
By and by—immediately.
Carriage—what is carried. Not a vehicle.
Clouted—to be patched.
Confection—to smell—not taste.
Conversation—conduct, behavior.
Eminent—refers to physical height.
Fashion—a plan.
Feeble-minded—faint-hearted.
Imagine—to plan an action.
Let—to hinder, impede, or prevent.
Mean—a common person.
Meat—any food.
Passenger—a passer-by, wayfarer.
Prevent—to go before.
Refrain—restrain or check.
Several—separate
Simple—free from guile; blameless.
Sincere—applied to things as well as persons—”sincere milk of the word.” I Peter 2:2.
Space—applied to time—rather than area.
Suburbs—pastures, common land.
Target—a shield or buckler.
Nain—empty, worthless, foolish.
Worship—applied to human beings as well as to God.
NOTE: “The Bible Word Book,” published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, contains 827 words and phrases which have changed or modified their meanings as used in the King James Version.