Appendix:Gikun Usage in Meiji Version of Japanese Bible/安息

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term
安 息
Grade: 3 Grade: 3
irregular

Etymology[edit]

Gikun word derived by applying Chinese-derived spelling 安息 (“rest”), a term which decomposes into 安 (“contentment”) + 息 (“cease, rest”), to native Japanese word やすみ (yasumi, “rest”).

Noun[edit]

安息 (やすみ)[1] (yasumi) → 休 (やす)み (yasumi), 安息 (あんそく)(ansoku)

  1. rest (ceasing work being content with work completed)
※ God "rested" only in the sense that He was content (安) and pleased with what he had made (Genesis 1:31) and ceased (息) creating (Genesis 2:2). This sense is shown clearly by this gikun word.

Quotations[edit]

  1. ^ OT, page 2:
    第七日 (なぬかめ)に神 (かみ)其 (その)造 (つく)りたる工 (わざ)を竣 (をへ)たまへり即 (すなは)ち其 (その)造 (つく)りたる工 (わざ)を竣 (をへ)て七日 (なぬか)に安息 (やすみ)たまへり
    Nanuka me ni Kami sono tsukuritaru waza wo oe tamaeri sunawachi sono tsukuritaru waza wo oete nanuka ni yasumi tamaeri
    And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
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