HEBREW WORD STUDY – ANKLE BRACELET – TSA’AD צעד Psalms 37:23: “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighted in his way.” “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Yogi Berra Everyone has a word about the future. I like David’s observation about the future.
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – COLD WATER – GAR קר Matthew 10:42: “And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.” There were some things in the first
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY: GOOD (SHEPHERD) – TAWA’ אוט John 10:11: “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd gives his life for his sheep.” Today I heard about a pastor who felt it would be wrong for him to clean the bathrooms in his church. If his congregation truly loved God they would be ashamed
HEBREW WORD STUDY – I HAVE SOJOURNED – GARETI גרתי Genesis 32:4-5,7: “And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now: (5)And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – GENERATION – SHARBTHA שׁרבתא Matthew 24:34: “Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” I remember growing up in an Evangelical Church where Biblical prophecy was the order of the day. Everyone was speculating on who the anti-Christ was. President Kennedy would
HEBREW WORD STUDY – BRILLIANCE – ZOHAR ז הר Daniel 12:3: “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.” I am not a student of prophecy so I really cannot comment on the context of this verse. From
HEBREW WORD STUDY – TIN – BADAL בדל Isaiah 1:25: “I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all they tin.” I am always amazed at watching old silent movies where you see an old Model T Ford bouncing over roads that would cause a modern vehicle
HEBREW WORD STUDY – LOCUST – RAVAH רבה Joel 2:25: “And I will restore to you the years that the locust have eaten, the cankerworm and the caterpillar and the palmerworm my great army which I sent among you.” Very little is known about the prophet Joel. He is mentioned only once, in the first
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – MADE, DISAPPEAR ‘AVEDI, ‘AVEDI עבדי. אבדי Jeremiah 10:11: “Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.” I was reading Jeremiah 10 in my Hebrew Bible today and was shocked when
HEBREW WORD STUDY – TREASURES OF SNOW – OTSEROTH SHALAG אצרות. שׁלג Job 38:22: “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow, hast thou seen the treasures of the hail which I have reserved against the time of trouble against the day of battle and war?” Today in Chicago we had our first snow
