• HEBREW WORD STUDY – CATTLE PROD – LAMED – ל מד   Isaiah 29:13:  “Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:” Mark 7:18:

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – STUBBORN  – CHAZAQ  חזק    Malachi 3:13-14: “Your words have been stout against me” saith the Lord.  Yet you say: “What have we spoken against you.” You have said: “It is vain to serve God and what profit is there that we have kept his ordinance? And that we have walked mournfully

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – SILENT TO ME – CHASHAH  MIMENI  תחשׁח. ממני   Psalms 28:1 “Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.” The word for pit is bore in Hebrew which could mean

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – DRINKING GOLD  –  YASHEQ   HAZAHAV  bhzh   qvy  Yod Shin Qof     Hei Zayin Hei Beth Exodus 32:20:  “And he took the calf which they had made and burnt [it] in the fire, and ground [it] to powder, and strawed [it] upon the water, and made the children of

  • ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – STRENGTH, POWER –  CHAYL  חיל   Ephesians 6:10: “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.” Ok, maybe I am being a little Aspie here but is not strength, power and might all the same thing?  Obviously not.   We are to be strong, using the power

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – MY ENEMIES – ‘AYIV   TSARI  איב  צרי    Psalms 13:4:  “Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.” Most Christians are familiar with the Hebrew poetry discipline known as a couplet where something is repeated using two different words.  The

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY –   THE COCK CROWS   קרא  תרנגלא     Matthew 26:34, “Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.” The Talmud teaches that the third hour is the hour of the rooster’s crow. The sixth hour is the time

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – NO GREEN –    YEREQ  LO   ירק  לא   Isaiah 15:6: “For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate, for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.” I took a walk in the park today as I was really feeling low. But being February, there was

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – LABOR NOT  – ‘AL  TIG     אל. תיגע Pr 23:4 . Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.     Proverbs 23:4-5:  “Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. (5)Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they

  • ARAMAIC WORD STUDY –  WASHING HANDS – SHUG  ‘AIDA  שׁוג אידא   Matthew 15:2: “Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.” In  Matthew 15 the Pharisees accused Jesus of violating the Tradition of the Fathers by not instructing His disciples to wash their hands