HEBREW WORD STUDY – FROM YOUR LAND MA’ARATSOKA מארצכ Genesis 12:1: “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:” I was reading a commentary from Jewish literature and found something interesting in Genesis
HEBREW WORD STUDY – I WILL PUT – ‘ASIM אשׁימ Exodus 15:26: And he said: If thou wilt diligently harken unto the voice of God and will do that which is right in His sight, and will give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon
WORD STUDY – FORMER RAINS- YARAH – ירה Jeremiah 5:24: “Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Few students who have graduated or even attended Moody
HEBREW WORD STUDY – I WILL SING – ‘ASHIRAH Psalms 104:33: “I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.” Mark 5:30: “And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press,
HEBREW WORD STUDY – HE MADE OTHERS CALL – ויקרי Genesis 12:8: “And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he built an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE POOR – DALAL דלל Psalms 41:1 “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The other day as I was driving my disability bus through the inner city of Chicago. This was in the
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – FAIR TRADE FOR PROFIT – YATANA’ יותנא Philippians 1:21: “For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.” All my life when I faced a crisis I sought the peace of God but I was often was very unsuccessful in finding that peace until God finally put things
HEBREW WORD STUDY – BREAD OF AFFLICTION – LECHEM TSAR לחמ צר Isaiah 30:20: “And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see them, teachers:” There are no tenses in Hebrew, however, we do
HEBREW WORD STUDY – CALLINGS OF HOLINESS – MIQR’EI KODESH Leviticus 23:2: “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts.” Jewish Hebrew Masters render Leviticus quite a bit differently than Christians do.
HEBREW WORD STUDY – CHARIOTS OF FIRE – RAKAV ISH II Kings 6:17: “And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire
