Pojęcia wyrażające cnotę miłości w Biblii

The Christian virtue of love formulated in the Bible has been shaped bymany centuries and by different concepts. The foundation of this processis found in the Hebrew concepts relating to love. Changing the languageto Greek has demanded an effort to try and find the best concepts whichimitate the richness of the Hebrew meanings. That resulted in some ofthem being expressed by notions that did not relate to love. What is more,the four Greek words that designate love did not have the same meaningsas in Hebrew. Selected from among them, the word agapē actually wastransformed and recreated by the Judeo-Christian culture to become thekey word expressing the virtue of charity.