HEBREW WORD STUDY – LISTEN, CONTEMPLATE, MEDITATE, OBEY – SHEMA שמע Shin Mem Ayin Numbers 25:4: “And the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto the LORD in face of the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.’” JPS Tanakh
HEBREW WORD STUDY – A TASSEL – TSITSIT ציצית Sade Yod Sade Yod Hei HEBREW WORD STUDY – A TASSEL – TSITSIT ציצית Sade Yod Sade Yod Hei Numbers 15:38-39: “Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations and that
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE DEFIANT ONES – MA’APLIM מעפלם Mem Ayin Pei Lamed Mem Numbers 14:40,44: “And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we [be here], and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have
WORD STUDY – TENDER EYES – ‘AYANI RAKAK רכות עיני Genesis 29:17 “Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.” You remember the story of how Jacob was fooled into marrying Leah when he was in love with Rachel. I read something in the Jewish Talmud about this story. In Christianity, it is traditionally
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – THE WEDDING DANCE – CHADOTHA חדותא Cheth Daleth Vav Taw Aleph Hebrews 12:2: “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
HEBREW WORD STUDY – MISUNDERSTANDING – MASEVEH מסוה Mem Samek Vav Hei Exodus 34:33: “And [till] Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.” II Corinthians 3:13: “And not as Moses, [which] put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SEND FOR YOURSELF – SHELACH LAKA שלח לך Shin Lamed Cheth Lamed Kap Numbers 13:2: “Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.”
HEBREW WORD STUDY – GLADNESS – SIMCHAH שמחה Sine Mem Cheth Hei Numbers 10:9-10: “And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your
HEBREW WORD STUDY – FLOWER – TSITS – ציצ Psalms 103:15-17: “As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the LORD [is] from
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – THE HAPPIEST TOVIHUN טוביהון Teth Vav Beth Yod Hei Vav Nun Jeremiah 2:31: “O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?” John 20:29: “Jesus saith
