>>>Actually, to understand what the Bible is saying, you need to not look up the word in the dictionary, but know what was written in the original Greek. I have no idea what word is used for submission, but it could be different in each of the passages you cited.
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>>And once you've worked it all out, someone comes and tells you that the Greek is not actually the original text, it's a translation from Hebrew, and maybe not a direct one... so you can assume that your approximation of an approximation is 100% sure to produce the one and only exact translation of the original :).
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>From what I understand, the OT was written in Hebrew. The NT was written in Greek and Aramaic.

NT? That explains a lot. And XP is probably written in Sanskrit :).