Four Marks of the Church adjective ("katholikos"), meaning "general", "universal". It is associated with the Greek adverb ("katholou"), meaning "according to the whole", "entirely", or "in general", a combination of the preposition meaning "according to" and the adjective meaning "whole". Applied to the church, the adjective "catholic" means that in the church the wholeness of the Christian faith, full and complete, all-embracing, and with nothing lacking, is proclaimed to all people without excluding any part of the faith or any class or group of people. The adjective can be applied not only to the church as spread throughout the world but also to each local
Š-L-M Testament text uses "eirēnē" () for 'peace', which perhaps represents Jesus saying "šlama"; this Greek form became the northern feminine name Irene. In the Epistles, it often occurs alongside the usual Greek greeting "chairein" () in the phrase 'grace and peace'. However, comparison of the Greek Septuagint and Hebrew Masoretic Old Testament texts shows some instances where "shalom" was translated instead as "soteria" (, meaning 'salvation'). In Hebrew: In Aramaic: Š-L-M Shin-Lamedh-Mem is the triconsonantal root of many Semitic words, and many of those words are used as names. The root meaning translates to "whole, safe, intact, unharmed, to go