Where Did The Word Gambling Come From

Posted By admin  On 11.05.21

It is believed that Bingo started initially as a game in Italy way back in 1530. It has been linked to originating from the Italian lottery called Il Gioco del Lotto d’Italia.

Bible verses about gambling

Many people wonder is gambling a sin? Although there might not be a clear cut verse from what we learn in Scripture I strongly believe it is a sin and all Christians should stay away from it. It is terrible to see that some churches are bringing gambling in the house of God. The Lord is not pleased.

Many people are going to say, well the Bible doesn’t specifically say you can’t do it. The Bible doesn’t specifically say you can’t do a lot of things that we know as sin.

Many people find any excuse they can give for what is wrong, but just like Satan deceived Eve he will deceive many by saying, did God really say you can’t do that?

Quotes

  • “Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.” – George Washington
  • “Gambling is a sickness, a disease, an addiction, an insanity, and is always a loser in the long run.”
  • “Gambling can be just as addictive as drugs and alcohol. Teens and their parents need to know that they’re not just gambling with money, they’re gambling with their lives.”
  • “Gambling is the sure way of getting nothing for something.”

Gambling is of the world, it is very addicting, and it will cause you harm.

Where Did The Word News Originate

Gambling is loving something that is part of the cruel world, not only is it dangerous especially back in the days where many were being plotted on and murdered for their money. Gambling is very addictive, you can go into a casino one day thinking I’m going to spend this much, then leave without your car. For some people it’s that bad and it can become even worse.

I’ve heard many stories about people losing their lives for owing money and people losing their lives by committing suicide because of the money they lost. Many people have lost their houses, spouses, and kids over their gambling addiction. You might say that I don’t gamble that much, but it doesn’t matter. Even if it is small fun gambling it is sin and it should not be done. Always remember that sin grows overtime. Your heart becomes harder, your desires become greedier, and it will turn into something that you never saw coming.

1. 1 Corinthians 6:12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say–but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”–but I will not be mastered by anything.

2. 2 Peter 2:19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity–for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”

3. 1 Timothy 6:9-10 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

4. Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is his good, pleasing and perfect will.

5. Proverbs 15:27 The greedy bring ruin to their households, but the one who hates bribes will live.

Gambling leads to more sin.

Not only does gambling lead to deeper and deeper covetousness, but it leads to different types of sin. When you go to the movie theater and buy popcorn they make it extra buttery so you will buy their expensive drinks. When you go to casinos they promote alcohol. When you are not sober you will be trying to kick back and spend more money. Many people who are addicted to gambling are also living in drunkenness. Prostitutes are always near casinos. They entice men who seem like high rollers and they entice men who are down on their luck. It is not a surprise that most casinos promote sensuality and women.

6. James 1:14-15 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Scripture teaches that we are to be on guard against covetousness.

7. Exodus 20:17 Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

8. Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.

9. Luke 12:15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

As Christians we are to fix our attitudes on money.

10. Ecclesiastes 5:10 Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.

11. Luke 16:13 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

What is your eye gazing upon?

Your chance of winning the lottery on a single ticket is one in 175 million. That means that someone has to really be greedy and have dreams of riches to still try and play the lottery. You have to pay for more and more tickets because of your greed and what you are really doing is emptying your pockets because of your covetousness.

Most gamblers throw money away. Most people who go to casinos lose money that could have been used for paying bills or on the less fortunate, but instead people would rather throw it away. It is wasting God’s money on evil, which is similar to stealing.

12. Luke 11:34-35 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.

13. Proverbs 28:22 Greedy people try to get rich quick but don’t realize they’re headed for poverty.

14. Proverbs 21:5 The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage, But everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty.

15. Proverbs 28:20 The trustworthy person will get a rich reward, but a person who wants quick riches will get into trouble.

We are to be hard workers.

The Bible teaches us to work hard and worry about others. Gambling teaches us to do the opposite. In fact, many of the people who play the lottery are poor. Gambling destroys something that God intended for good. You have to understand that the devil is using it to destroy the foundation of work.

16. Ephesians 4:28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

17. Acts 20:35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.

18. Proverbs 10:4 Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich.

Where does the word gambling come from

19. Proverbs 28:19 Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.

Gambling and betting is giving the appearance of evil.

What would you think if you went inside a casino and you saw your pastor holding money in one hand and rolling dice in another? That picture just wouldn’t look right would it? Now picture yourself doing the same thing. Society does not look at gambling as being honest. The betting industry is a dark world filled with crime. Google treats gambling websites like pornography websites. Gambling websites contain a lot of viruses.

20. 1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Many churches want to turn God’s house into a place to play bingo and other gambling activities, which is wrong. God’s house is not a place to make profit. It is a place to worship the Lord.

21. John 2:14-16 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!”

Gambling is not trusting in the Lord.

One of the greatest problems of gambling is it takes away from trusting in the Lord. God says I will provide for your needs. Satan says roll the dice there might be a chance that you win and become filthy rich. You see the problem. When you trust in God nothing is by chance. God provides for our needs and God gets all the glory. Gambling is showing that you don’t really trust in the Lord.

22. Isaiah 65:11 But because the rest of you have forsaken the LORD and have forgotten his Temple, and because you have prepared feasts to honor the god of Fate and have offered mixed wine to the god of Destiny.

Where words come from origin

23. Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

Reminders

24. Proverbs 3:7 Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the LORD and turn away from evil.

25. Proverbs 23:4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness.

In conclusion.

You have a higher chance of being struck by lighting than winning the lottery. Most gambling is not made for you to win. It’s made for you to dream about what if I did win. Gambling fails in its attempt to give people hope because most people spend thousands of dollars for nothing. Just take a thousand dollars and throw it in the garbage that is exactly what gamblers do over the course of time. When you have greed you will always lose more than you gain. Gambling is bad for your health and it violates many Scriptures as seen above. Seek hard work and trust in the Lord with your income.

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gam·ble

(găm′bəl)v.intr.1.
a. To bet on an uncertain outcome, as of a game or sporting event.
b. To play a game for stakes, especially a game whose outcome is at least partly determined by chance.
2. To take a risk in the hope of gaining an advantage or a benefit.
3. To engage in reckless or hazardous behavior: You are gambling with your health by continuing to smoke.
v.tr.
2. To expose to hazard; risk: gambled their lives in a dangerous rescue mission.
n.
2. An act or undertaking of uncertain outcome; a risk: I took a gamble that stock prices would rise.
[Perhaps from obsolete gamel, to play games, from Middle English gamen, gamenen, to play, from Old English gamenian, from gamen, fun.]
Noun1.gambler - a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; 'there was too much for one person to do'
bettor, wagerer, better, punter - someone who bets
bookie, bookmaker - a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)
crapshooter - a gambler who plays the game of craps
croupier - someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table
loser - a gambler who loses a bet
handicapper, odds-maker - someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race)
crap-shooter, shooter - a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps
plunger, speculator - someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
sporting man - someone who leads a merry existence; especially a gambler on the outcome of sporting events
2.gambler - someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement
adventurer, venturer - a person who enjoys taking risks

gambler

noun

Where Words Come From Origin

1.better, punter, backerThe British are a nation of inveterate gamblers.
2.risk-taker, speculatorNever afraid of failure, he was a gambler, ready to try anything.

gambler

noun
1. One who bets:
2. One who speculates for quick profits:
hazardní hráčhráč
szerencsejátékos
도박꾼
spelare
Come

gambler

[ˈgæmblər]n
(with money) → joueur/euse m/f
a heavy gambler → un(e) flambeur/euse m/f
(= risk-taker)
He's not afraid of failure: he's a gambler → Il n'a pas peur de l'échec; il a le goût du risque.

gambler

n (lit, fig) → Spieler(in)m(f); he’s a born gambler → er ist eine Spielernatur; Gamblers Anonymous → pl

gamble

(ˈgӕmbl) verb
to risk losing money on the result of a horse-race etc. dobbel يُقامِر рискувам jogar sázet, hrát (hazardně) spielen spille; satse παίζω τυχερά παιχνίδια, τζογάρω apostar a, jugar dinero a hasartmänge mängima قمار کردن؛ ریسک کردن pelata uhkapeliä jouer לְהַמֵר जुआ खेलना kockati (pénzben) játszik berjudi spila fjárhættuspil giocare d'azzardo かけ事をする 도박하다 lošti spēlēt azartspēles judi gokkensette på spill, satse penger uprawiać hazard جوارى كول، خمار كول ( قمار كول jogar a miza играть в азартные игры hrať; staviť igrati na srečo kockati se spela på เสี่ยงโชค kumar oynamak 賭博 робити ставку رقم داؤ پر لگانا đánh cờ bạc 买跑马赛等票进行赌博，赌博
noun
(something which involves) a risk. The whole business was a bit of a gamble. waagstuk مُقامَرَه хазартна игра jogada risk, hazard das Glücksspiel chance ρίσκοempresa arriesgada, jugada õnnemäng ریسک riski entreprise risquée הִימוּרִים जुआ, दांव पर लगाना rizik kockázatos ügy perjudian fjárhættuspil; áhætta gioco d'azzardo かけ事 모험, 투기 rizikingas dalykas riskants pasākums perjudian gokhasardspill, sjanseseilasryzyko قمار jogada ac­ţiu­ne riscantă рискованное предприятие hazard tvegana igra kocka vågspel, chansning การเสี่ยงโชค kumar 碰運氣，冒風險 ризикована справа پر خطر اقدام việc đánh bạc 冒险，投机
ˈgambler noun
dobbelaar مُقامِر комарджия jogador (hazardní) hráč der Spieler spiller τζογαδόροςjugador mängur قمارباز uhkapeluri joueur/-euse מהמר जुआरी kockar (szerencse)játékos penjudi fjárhættuspilari giocatore/giocatrice d'azzardo ばくち打ち 도박사 lošėjas azartspēļu spēlētājs penjudi; kaki judi gokkerspekulant, gambler, spillerhazardzista جوارګر، قمار باز jogador cartofor игрок hráč, -ka hazarder kockar [hasard]spelare นักเสี่ยงโชค kumarbaz 賭徒 азартний гравець جواری người đánh bạc 赌徒
ˈgambling noun
dobbelary مُقامَرَه хазарт jogo hazard, hra (riziko) das Spielen spil τζόγοςjuego hasartmäng قماربازی uhkapeli jeu הִימוּרִים जुआ खेलना kockanje (szerencse)játék perjudian þátttaka í fjárhættuspili/veðmálum gioco d'azzardo ばくち 도박 azartinis lošimas azartspēle berjudi het gokken hasardspill, gambling, spekulasjonhazard جوارګری jogo joc de noroc азартные игры hazardná hra hazardna igra kockanje [hasard]spel การพนัน kumar 賭博 азартна гра جوا trò cờ bạc 赌博
take a gamble
to do something risky in the hope that it will succeed. waag 'n kans يُقامِر، يُغامِر рискувам arriscar hazardovat sich auf ein Glücksspiel einlassen satse; sætte på spil το παίζω κορόνα γράμματα tomar un riesgo, arriesgar riskima ریسک کردن ottaa riski prendre un risque לְהִסתַכֵּן जोखिम उठाना riskirati hazardíroz menantang risiko taka áhættu rischiare いちかばちか試す 모험을 하다 (su)rizikuoti riskēt memperjudikan nasib een gok doen gamble, satse, spille hasardzaryzykować قمار كول arriscar a risca рискнуть hazardovať tvegati kockati se göra en chansning เสี่ยงพนัน şansını denemek 碰運氣，冒風險 ризикувати کامیابی حاصل کرنے کے لیے خطرہ مول لینا mạo hiểm 冒险从事

gambler

→ مُقامِر hazardní hráč hasardspillerGlücksspielerτζογαδόροςjugador uhkapelurijoueur kockargiocatore d’azzardo ギャンブラー 도박꾼gokkergamblerhazardzistajogador de jogo de azarазартный игрок spelare นักพนันkumarcı người chơi bạc赌博者
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