HEBREW WORD STUDY – SEPARATION – TSARAPH צרף Sade Resh Pei Psalms 12:6: “The words of the LORD [are] pure words: [as] silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.” Some time ago there was a neat little story making its rounds on the internet and copied in many blogs. I am sure
HEBREW WORD STUDY – YOUR CONSCIENCE – ‘ANAH ענה Ayin Nun Hei Psalms 119:67-71: “Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. (68) David is telling us that before he suffered affliction he went astray. Actually, the word astray is shogeg. Astray sounds so serious like he was backsliding.
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – MOCKED – BAZACH בזח Beth Zayin Cheth Galatians 6:7-8: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (8) For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SPEAK TO SAY DEBAR LA’AMAR Leviticus 23:1 “And the LORD said unto Moses saying…” I looked at 26 Modern English translations of the Bible and only 16 of the 26 really translated this passage word for word. Many translations just take the repeating of the word “speak” or say
HEBREW WORD STUDY – A WONDER – KEMOPATH כמופת Kap Mem Vav Pei Taw Psalms 71:7: “I am as a wonder unto many, but thou art my strong refuge” “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” The Wonderful Wizard of Oz I tend to get many flattering comments and reviews on my books
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SABOTAGE – SA’AD סעד Samek Ayin Daleth Psalms 94:18: “When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. During a run on my disability bus today I was talking with someone who was terrified of making a truly major decision in her life. She was so afraid
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE SOURCE – AYIN עין Ayin Yod Nun I Samuel 18:9: “And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.” I remember hearing an evangelist tell of a time he went to a church in some backwater town on the other side of the tracks. He was asked to conduct a
HEBREW WORD STUDY – PEACE LIKE A RIVER – KANAHAR SHALOM כהנר שלום Kap Hei Nun Resh Shin Lamed Vav Mem Isaiah 48:18: “O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:” “When you put your hand in a
HEBREW WORD STUDY – DANCE FOR JOY – CHUL חול Cheth Vav Lamed. Lamentations 3:26: “It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.” This is an interesting thought. We should wait and hope for the salvation of the Lord. I thought we are to know
HEBREW WORD STUDY – IT’S OK CHASAH חסה Cheth Samek Hei Nahum 1:7 The LORD [is] good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. Nahum was a prophet around 600 BC. The Northern ten tribes of Israel had already been taken into captivity by the Assyrian Empire.
