• HEBREW WORD STUDY – CLOSE FRIEND – ISH SHALOMI  אשה שלומי  Aleph Shin Hei    Shin Lamed Vav Mem Yod   Psalms 41:9,12: “Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me. (12) And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – SOWN – ZARA’ זרע Zayin Resh Ayin Haggai 1:6: “You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourself but there is none warm; and he that earns wages earns wages to put it

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – ABUNDANT LOVE –  KARAB  RACHAMIKA     Kap Resh Beth    Resh Cheth Mem Yod Kap Psalms 51:1: “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – MY PORTION – NACHALI  נחלי  Nun Cheth Lamed Yod Joshua 13:33:  “But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not [any] inheritance: the LORD God of Israel [was] their inheritance, as he said unto them.” There’s a story in Jewish literature about a man who had eleven sons. He decided that

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – BEATEN  –  KATHITH  כתית Kap Taw Yod Taw  Exodus 27:20: “And thou shalt command the children of Israel that they bring thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.” I once asked a rabbi why the children of Israel had to bring olive oil

  • ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – EATING AND DRINKING – ‘ECHOL VASHATA’   אכל  ושתא  Aleph Kap Lamed   Vav Shin Taw Aleph Matthew 24:37: “But as the days of Noe [were], so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (38) For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – HANDMAIDEN – ‘AMAH   SHIPHACHAH אמה  שפחה    Alpeh Mem Hei   Shin Peh Cheth Hei                       Ruth 2:13:  “Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – SPREAD YOUR GARMENT – PARASTA KENAPHENKA פרשת  כנפך  Pei Resh Shin Taw   Kap Nun Pei Kap Ruth 3:9:  “And he said, Who [art] thou? And she answered, I [am] Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou [art] a near kinsman.” Ruth was a Moabite.  The Moabites

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – SPREAD YOUR GARMENT – PARASTA KENAPHENKA  פרשת  כנפך  Pei Resh Shin Taw   Kap Nun Pei Kap Ruth 3:9:  “And he said, Who [art] thou? And she answered, I [am] Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou [art] a near kinsman.” Ruth was a Moabite.  The

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – I WILL DWELL IN THE TEMPLE   YASH’I BOHEL ישעי  באהל  Yod Shin Ayin Yod     Beth Aleph Hei Lamed Ruth 3:9: “And he said, Who [art] thou? And she answered, I [am] Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou [art] a near kinsman.” I