HEBREW WORD STUDY – FAT AS GREASE – CHALAV חלב Psalms 119:70: “Their heart is as fat as grease, but I delight in thy law.” “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” ―
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SPARE THE ROD – TIMENAI SHAVAT תושׁכ שׁבט Proverbs 13:24: “He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.” Proverbs 23:13: “Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.” Did the wisest man who ever
HEBREW WORD STUDY – I KNOW MY REDEEMER LIVES Ani Yodahthi Go’ali Chi אני ידעתי גאלי חי Job 19:25 For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth: Alice was a grandmotherly elderly woman who hails from South Georgia. She comes equipped with a genuine dirt water
HEBREW WORD STUDY – CRUEL, WRATH, ANGER – ANEPH CHARAH KAZAR אנפ כרה כזר Isaiah 13:9: “Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.” It is so easy to use the words cruel wrath
HEBREW WORD STUDY: THE THIRD WARRIOR – SHALESHIM שׁלשׁימ I Samuel 4:7 “And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp and they said: Woe unto us! For there hath not been such a thing heretofore.” I find this verse very remarkable in that the Philistines declared that God had
WORD STUDY – AN EVIL SPIRIT – RAUCH RA’AH רוח רעה I Samuel 18:10: “And it came to pass on the morrow that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house.” “There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.” –
HEBREW WORD STUDY – FORTIFIED – TSUR צ ור Psalm 139:5: “Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.” I suppose you could translate this verse in a number of ways. What I find interesting in this verse is the word for beset which is tsur. As a noun, this
WORD STUDY – TENDER EYES – ‘AYANI RAKAK רכות עיני Genesis 29:17, “Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.” You remember the story of how Jacob was fooled into marrying Leah when he was in love with Rachel. I read something in the Jewish Talmud about this story. In Christianity, it is
HEBREW/ ARAMAIC WORD STUDY: THIS CUP – HAKA’ KASA’ הכא כסא Matthew 26:39: “And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.” History is filled with Christians who went to
HEBREW WORD STUDY – FULFILL – MALA’ מלא Exodus 23:26: “There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.” What does that mean that God will fulfill the number of your days? Our immediate thought fits that of the NIV which says: “I will give
