Where does the terminology one iota come from?

Question

What is an iota?

Answer 1

I believe the term comes from the following text:

Revelation 22
18I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 19And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

Iota is the letter "i" in Greek. I know the phrase is used saying "do not leave one iota missing". The English phrase is "not one t left uncrossed or one i undotted" or something like that.

Answer 2

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Where does the terminology one iota come from?
What is an iota?

Answer 3

The New Testament is written in Greek. Iota is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.

However, it also means "A very small amount; a bit". For example, not an iota of truth to that tale.

Answer 4

Can't see the forest for the trees in here. So just to repeat the correct information:

Iota is a Greek letter yada yada. It takes up the least amount of space. Even more so in Hebrew and Aramaic (written in Hebrew characters), where it's called a yod, just a tiny wee thing, like the dot of our i with a tail. Linguistically, it doesn't carry much weight either. Jesus would have been speaking Aramaic, so his yod reference means the least amount. The metaphor worked well enough in Greek that the authors could just use iota and carry on.

Answer 5

9th Greek letter, used to mean a small amount.....

Iota participated as the second element in falling diphthongs, with both long and short vowels as the first element. Where the first element was long, the iota was lost in pronunciation at an early date, and was written in polytonic orthography as iota subscript in other words as a very small ι under the main vowel, for instance ᾼ ᾳ ῌ ῃ ῼ ῳ....see, it is a small dot for clarification.

Answer 6

iota is the ninth letter of the greek alphabet . the terminology one iota is thought to come from around the same time matthew wrote in the bible one jot or tittle. it just means a very very small amount as jot or tittle refer to one stroke of the pen or even dot of the pen.

Answer 7

Etymology: Latin, from Greek iOta, of Semitic origin; akin to Hebrew yOdh yod
1 : the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet -- see ALPHABET table
2 : an infinitesimal amount

Answer 8

an iota is a very small thing so saying "not one iota" is another way of saying "not even a little bit"

Answer 9

9th letter of the Greek alphabet -- evidently a small one!

When the Jews accused Jesus of changing the law, he said not one little bit would be changed "'til all be fulfilled." Whatever that means!

Answer 10

one uncrossed t or one undotted i would be to the word ''it'' which is 3 times mentioned in the 10 commands and it refers to the sabbath day,which many say is done away with.