The word "faith" has undergone numerous semantic shifts and changes throughout history. Its original Hebrew root -m-n was translated in the Greek Septuagint as both pistis (faith) and alétheia (truth), suggesting that "faith" covers only a part of the original meaning. Similarly, Latin had fides and veritas. The Czech word "víra" originally also meant "fidelity" (e.g., in Master Hus's writings). Furthermore, Jesus spoke of faith in a different sense than the Apostle Paul. Jesus contrasted faith with fear, while Paul contrasted it with face-to-face vision. Paul, as a Hellenized Jew, imbued the understanding of faith with Greek connotations that influenced Christian thought for nearly two millennia.