HEBREW WORD STUDY – WIFE – ISHAH אשׁה Proverbs 18:22: “[Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD.” Practically everyone who has attended a wedding is familiar with this verse. This familiarity creates some big problems in translation. For one thing, we are so familiar with the passage
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – A HIGHER PRAISE – TESHABUCHATAH תשׁביחתה Romans 15:7: “Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.” For years I heard this verse and my mind just slipped right over it. Many modern translations say receive one another but there is an equal number who
QUICK WORD STUDY – I ALSO – AF ANI אפ אני Leviticus 26:28: “Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.” KJV Leviticus 26:28: “I will act with furious rage against you, and I Myself will punish you sevenfold for your
HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD’S WEALTH – SEGULLAH – סגלה Malachi 3:17“They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.” EVS Most translations translate the word segullah as treasure, jewels, possession,
HEBREW WORD STUDY – MY LIGHT – ‘OR אורי Psalms 27:1: “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid.” What does the Psalmist mean when he says that the Lord is “my light.” The word for light
HEBREW WORD STUDY- IT BELONGS TO THE NAME – YIHI SHEM – יהי שׁמ Job 1:21: “The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord.” “Rock, “ he said: “Sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE EIGHTH STRING – HASHEMINITH השׁמינית Psalms 12:1: “To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.” KJV Psalms 12:1: “To Him Who grants victory on the instrument with eight strings, a Psalm of David.” Rabbi Samson Hirsch I find it curious that many modern English translations leave out the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – DIPLOMACY (ARAMAIC) – SHU’ABDA – שׁועבדא 1Timothy 2:11,12: “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. (12) But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. I Corinthians 14:34-35: “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not
HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD HOLDS OUR HAND – ELOHEKA MACHAZIQ YAMINAKA אלהיכ קיחמ ימינכ Isaiah 41:13: “For I the Lord thy God will uphold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.” Various translations will say that God “upholds” your right hand, some will say he “takes’ your right hand and
HEBREW WORD STUDY – TRUTH – ‘EMIT אמת John 14:6: “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 4:24 Jesus said; “God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth.” I
