Matthew 5:18

verily The Hebr. Amenis retained in the Greek text. This particle is used (a) to confirm the truth of what has been said. (b) To affirm the truth of what is about to be said. The second (b) is a Syriac use, and therefore more usual in the N.T. than in the O.T. where the use is nearly limited to (a).

one jot "yod" (י) the smallest of the Hebr. characters, generally a silent letter, rather the adjunct of a letter than an independent letter. Still a critical interpretation might turn on the presence or absence of yodin a word. The controversy as to the meaning of Shiloh, Genesis 49:10, is an instance of this. The letter yodmakes the difference between Sarai and Sarah. It is the first letter in Jehovah and in the Hebrew form of Jesus or Joshua.

tittle The English word means a "point," from Anglo-Saxon thyd-anto prick, connected with "thistle." The Greek word means lit. a horn. Here the extremity of a letter, a little point, in which one letter differs from another.

fulfilled The Greek word is different from that which has the same rendering in Matthew 5:17.