Do You "Se-" What I "Se-"?

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https://membean.com/roots/se-apart

secret: piece of information kept “apart” from what you’re comfortable revealing
select: single “apart” from a number of things
separate: keep “apart” from other things
sever: cut “apart”
secede: go “apart”
segregate: to keep certain groups of people “apart” from one another
sedition: a going “apart” from an existing government
seclude: shut “apart”
sedulous: of being “apart” from slacking off
secure: “apart” from care or worry

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As opposed to "sacr":

sacrosanct: Something that is sacrosanct is considered to be so important, special, or holy that no one is allowed to criticize, tamper with, or change it in any way.
execrate: When you execrate someone, you curse them to show your intense dislike or hatred of them.
sacrilegious: A sacrilegious act is one of deep disrespect that violates something that is sacred or holy.
sacred: concerned with religion or religious purposes
sacredness: the quality of being sacred
sacrifice: endure the loss of
sacrificial: used in or connected with a sacrifice
sacrilege: blasphemous behavior

[Niemand]

I think most of the top lot are from a root that means to "cut". It is worth pointing out that when every anyone goes on about "intersectionality", that the word means literally "cut between".

Sacred may come from a similar root, as in "set apart", but that is arguable. You can add:

Sacerdotal – priestly. Sacerdotus is the Latin for "priest". It's been borrowed into Gaelic, and if you know anyone called MacTaggart or Haggerty etc it comes from that word.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/sacred

This is from Old Latin saceres, from PIE root *sak- "to sanctify." Buck groups it with Oscan sakrim, Umbrian sacra and calls it "a distinctive Italic group, without any clear outside connections." De Vaan has it from a PIE root *shnk- "to make sacred, sanctify," and finds cognates in Hittite šaklai "custom, rites," zankila "to fine, punish." Related: Sacredness. The Latin nasalized form is sancire "make sacred, confirm, ratify, ordain" (as in saint, sanction). An Old English word for "sacred" was godcund.

So sacred is related to "saint" (sanct), sanctify, sanction etc.

[Arm Chair Quarterback]

If you seek for security you're vulnerable to being swept up in secrets or secret organizations in order to obtain that security.

[Hogmeister]

Find definitions of Consecrate...

[endlessQuestions]

Find definitions of Consecrate...

Better yet, just look up secr in your standard works and marvel at how consistent God is.

[endlessQuestions]

Doing a deep dive study on secrets in the scriptures, and am going to need to repent.

The Duke, you around? This apology is coming right at you, my friend.

Might not get around to it until Monday, though. Lots more scripture to read, lots more praying to do, then need to make sure I formulate my apology correctly... but I definitely didn't see the whole picture as it relates to secrets in the scriptures.... I think there's going to be some interesting insights once I can look at the Hebrew and Greek words used in the original texts, and how these two cultures saw this differently.

A great study... thanks for triggering it!

[abijah]

Contemplating how language works and how words relate to one another is really worthwhile in my opinion.