• HEBREW WORD STUDY – CHURCH – QAHAL  – קהל   Qop  Hei Lamed Psalms 107:31-32: Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men! (32) “Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – NO MY LORD – LO’ ‘ADONAI  לא  אדוני    Lamed Aleph    Aleph Daleth Vav Nun Yod 1Samuel 1:15:  “And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I [am] a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the

  • ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – GOOD – TOVA – טובא   Teth Vav Beth Aleph Romans 8:28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.” How many of you know this verse by heart?  How many of you have

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – PURELY PURGE – ESTEROP KAVAR  אצרף כבר  Alpeh Sade Resh Pei    Kap Beth Resh  Isaiah 1:25: “I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all they tin.” I’m a little hunk of tin, Nobody knows what I’ve might have been Got four

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – STOP RIGHT THERE – SELAH – סלה  Samek, Lamed Hei Psalms 62:8-9: “Trust in him at all times; [ye] people, pour out your heart before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.” This Psalm is believed to be written by David or at a later date then David when the

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – BROKENESS – TERUAH – תרועה   Taw Resh Vav Ayin Hei Psalms 89:15:  “Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.” The Bible is full of people who are blessed. You are blessed if you study the Word of

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – INVESTMENT – LAVAH לוה   Lamed Vav Hei Isa 56:6-7  “Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – OVERWHELMED – BA’ATROPH בעטף  Beth Ayin Teth Final Pei Psalm 61:2: “From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.” I read in the Sefer HaMaamarim (Book of the Discourses)  used by Chasidic Jews

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – UNSALTED FISH – TIPHELAH תפלה   Taw Pei Lamed Hei Jeremiah 23:13: “And I have seen the unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.” I grew up in a fundamentalist Baptist church which taught that prophets no longer existed. I went

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – CURSE – ‘ARUR ארור   Aleph Resh Vav Resh Jeremiah 17:5: “Thus saith the Lord, ‘Curse be the man that trust in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart turns away from God.”   Jeremiah lived at the same time as Nahum.  However, where Nahum dealt with the coming