HEBREW WORD STUDY – BROKEN BONES – SHEVAR ‘ATSEM שׁבר. עצמ Lamentations 3:4 “My flesh and my skin hath he made old, he hath broken my bones.” “Why not? They are the only ones who can take it.” C.S. Lewis when asked why the righteous suffer. Tradition ascribes the Book of Lamentations to Jeremiah who
HEBREW WORD STUDY – WATERMELON – BATACH בטח Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understandings. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths.” I ran across something in ancient rabbinical teaching and recent archeological discoveries that I thought would have a
HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD INHABITS YASHAV ‘EL ישׁב. אל Psalms 22:3 “But thou art holy, O thou that inhabits the praises of Israel.” KJV Psalms 22:3 “You are enthroned as the Holy one, you are the praise of Israel.” NIV Psalms 22:3: “But thou dwellest in the Holy place, the praise of Israel.” Douay
HEBREW WORD STUDY – PROMPT – NADAV נדב Nun Daleth Beth Exodus 25:1-2: “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart prompts him, you shall take My offering.’” Why did God want the people to donate their gold, silver
HEBREW WORD STUDY – NARROW – TSAROTH צרות Psalms 25:17: “The troubles of my heart are enlarged: [O] bring thou me out of my distresses” “When sorrows come they come not single spies but in battalions” Claudius in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet Act IV Scene V The word for trouble here is tsaroth from the root
HEBREW WORD STUDY – REASON WITH GOD – YEHOKECH ‘EL הוכחnn אל Job 13:3: “Surely I would speak to the Almighty and I desire to reason with God.” I really can’t blame Job for wanting to reason with God. After all, God can be so unreasonable at times. I would like to just sit
HEBREW WORD STUDY – ABOVE MY ENEMIES – ‘AL ‘AVI על. אבי Psalms 27:6: “And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.” ‘Adu “aduyi Hooweh Ssadikki –
HEBREW WORD STUDY – APPROACHABLE – QARUV קרוב Isaiah 55:6: “Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon Him while He is near.” It used to be and still is a custom in many churches that when the Sunday morning service ends everyone goes outside and forms little groups to just talk.
HEBREW WORD STUDY – VAMPIRE – ALUKAH – עלוקה Proverbs 30:15-16: “The leech has two daughters, “Give,” “Give.” There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say: “Enough.” Sheol, and the barren womb, Earth, that is never satisfied with water and fire that never says: “Enough.” The basic theme of Proverbs
HEBREW WORD STUDY – VAMPIRE – ALUKAH – עלוקה Proverbs 30:15-16: “The leech has two daughters, “Give,” “Give.” There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say: “Enough.” Sheol, and the barren womb, Earth, that is never satisfied with water and fire that never says: “Enough.” The basic theme of
