The Thorndike/Barnhart dictionary offers many definitions for the word “new.” For purposes of this article, the following definition from Thorndike/Barnhart is utilized: “beginning a new: a new attempt.”
New according to Roget’s II The New Thesaurus as an adjective corresponds with the following synonyms: fresh, innovative, inventive, newfangled, novel, unfamiliar, and unprecedented.
New in the Bible is addressed in many scriptures. In preparing this article I visited Openbibleinfo.com. Openbibleinfo.com provided 64 Bible verses that contain the word new and/or have meanings of newness. Two of my favorites offered are 2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV) and Isaiah 43:19 (ESV).
2 Corinthians 5:17 states: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away, behold, the new has come.” Similarly, Isaiah 43:19 advises: “Behold, I am doing a new thing, now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."
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