HEBREW WORD STUDY – THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS – TOLEDOTH תולדה Taw Vav Lamed Daleth Hei Numbers 3:1-2: “These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day [that] the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai. (2) And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu,
HEBREW WORD STUDY – UPRIGHT AND TRUE – MEMUCAN ממוכן Mem Mem Vav Kap Nun Esther 1:14 “And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom.” I have heard the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH קנרות התאוה Qop Nun Resh Vav Taw Hei Taw Aleph Vav Hei Num 11:34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted. “Just a little bit more” – John D. Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller was at one point the richest
QUICK WORD STUDY – REPOSITORY – ‘AHAL אהל Aleph Hei Lamed Genesis 18:10: “And Sarah heard it in the tent door which was behind him.” I was reading in an ancient rabbinical work which noted that there was no preposition in the original text before the word door. Rabbi Shimon in this ancient text
HEBREW WORD STUDY – CRAVINGS – SHE’ELAH שאל Shin Aleph Lamed Numbers 11:4-5: “And the mixt multitude that [was] among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? (5) We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely…” Psalms 106:15:
HEBREW WORD STUDY – ISAAC – YITSECHAQ יצחק Yod Sade Cheth Qop Genesis 17:19: “And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after him.” Isaac was the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – LOVE THE LORD – ‘AHAVATH ETH YAHVAH אהבת את יהוה Deuteronomy 6:5: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.” Mt 22:37: “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
HEBREW WORD STUDY – I DESIRE MERCY – CHESED HAPATSETI חסד חפצתי Cheth Pei Sader Taw Yod Cheth Samek Daleth Hosea 6:6: “For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. “ Is it not odd that a pronoun (I) is used in the first phrase but
HEBREW WORD STUDY – WATCHMAN – TSAPHAR צפר Habakkuk: 5:1, “I will stand upon my watch, and set myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.” The other day I was in my sitting in my car preparing for
HEBREW WORD STUDY – NINETY AND NINE – TISH’EIM VATASHA’ תעימ ותשׁע Exodus 17:1: “And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.” Ninety-nine years old may or may not be the same as our
