Why do they call some words in the Bible the "Be(attitudes)"?

Question

Doesn't that sound ugly to your ears! Doesn't this show
how far man's mind has gone from the Creator?
Shouldn't it be the "Bea(titudes)"? Like "Beautiful Ways of Thinking"?

White Buffalo

Answer 1

In all reality they are called the beatitudes and not beattitudes.
The word "beatitude" is derived from the Latin word beatitudo, with reference to Psalms 32:1,2, David is said to pronounce the "beatitude" of the man whose transgressions are forgiven. In the Latin church beatitudo was used not only as an abstract term denoting blessedness, but in the secondary, concrete sense of a particular declaration of blessedness and especially of such a declaration coming from the lips of Jesus Christ. Beatitudes in this derivative meaning of the word occur frequently in the Old Testament, particularly in the Psalms (Ps 32:1,2; 41:1; 65:4, etc.), and Jesus on various occasions threw His utterances into this form (Mt 11:6; 13:16; 16:17; 24:46, with the Lukan parallels; Joh 13:17; 20:29). But apart from individual sayings of this type the name Beatitudes, ever since the days of Ambrose, has been attached specifically to those words of blessing with which, according to both Matthew and Luke, Jesus began that great discourse which is known as the Sermon on the Mount. Therefore you information is incorrect because it is meant the way you suggested it should be.

Answer 2

why would you say its ugly to your ears? say it the way you like.. cause the way the Bible is written its not ugly..maybe you should read the Bible and see what the words really mean.. instead of making fun of it...

The Beatitudes (from Latin, beatitudo, happiness) is the name given to the well-known, definitive and beginning portion of the Sermon on the Mount of the Gospel of Matthew.