HEBREW WORD STUDY – YOU LOVE ME NOT – YADABAR HA’AM ידר העימ Numbers 21:5: “And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.” Cassius:
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE JOY OF THE LORD – CHADOTH YHWH חדות יהוה Psalms 105:19: “Until the time that his word came, the word of the Lord tried him.” Nehemiah 8:10, “Don’t be dejected and sad, for the joy of the LORD is your strength!” We assume that our strength comes from the joy God gives
HEBREW WORD STUDY – DRAWING NEAR – NAGASH נגשׁ Genesis 44:18: “Then Judah came near unto him, and said, ‘Oh, my Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my Lord’s ears…” The word for come near is nagash. This has the idea of drawing near or approaching with an offering,
HEBREW WORD STUDY – WOUNDS OF A FRIEND – PATS’AI ‘OHAV פצעי אוהב Proverbs 27:6: “Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of the enemy.” I have been obsessing over trying to understand the heart of God so much, maybe I just was missing the obvious. With life’s many
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SOULS THAT THEY HAD GOTTEN – ETH HANEPHESH ‘ASHAR ‘ASHU Genesis 12:5 “And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE FIERY SERPENTS – HANACHASIM HASEREPHIM הנחשׁימ השׁרפימ Numbers 21:6: “And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and much people of Israel died.” Exodus 12:37 mentions that a mixed multitude, an unspecified number of non-Israelites were tagging along during the Exodus. They
HEBREW WORD STUDY – HE DOESN’T DELIGHT IN HORSE – LO HASUS YACHAPITS לא הסוס יחפצ Psalms 147:10: “He delighteth not in the strength of horses; he takes not pleasure in the legs of man.” I often have people ask me what a certain word really mean in Hebrew. That is an unfair question. Maybe for
HEBREW WORD STUDY – JESUS LOVES ME – עלמת אחבוכ Song of Solomon 1:3: “Therefore do the virgins love thee.” We live in a scientific society where there is only one answer to 2+2 and therefore only one interpretation to Scripture. We find our teachers who teach the interpretation we like and then just shut our
HEBREW WORD STUDY – FROM THE DEPTH – MAMA’MAQIM ממעמקימ Ps 130:1: “Song of degrees. “Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.” A song of degrees in Hebrew is hama’aloth shir which literally means Song of Ascents. It has also been rendered as Gradual Psalms, Songs of steps or Pilgrim
