HEBREW WORD STUDY – EVERLASTING LOVE – ‘OLAM ‘AHAVATH Jeremiah 31:3 “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” “Never to make a line I have not heard in my own heart.” – Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
HEBREW WORD STUDY – TRAVEL – NASA’ נסע Numbers 33:1: “These are the travels of the Children of Israel.” “Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled.” Robert Frost The Jewish sages are well known for their inyans. An inyan is a spiritual concept, A general idea as
HEBREW WORD STUDY – OPEN MY LIPS – SEPHATI TIPHETHACH שׁפתי תפתח Psalms 51:15: “Oh Lord open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.” “Is the Psalmist saying he will not praise the Lord if God does not open his lips and what does he mean by opening his lips? Most Christians and
HEBREW WORD STUDY – JOSIAH – יאשׁיהו II Chronicles 35:22: “Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.” Josiah was the last of
HEBREW WORD STUDY – WANDER – HALAKA הלכ Ecclesiastes 6:9: “Better is the sight of eyes than the wandering of the desire, this is also vanity and the vexation of the spirit.” One of the stories from Geoffrey Chaucer’ s “Canterbury Tales” is entitled “The Pardoner’s Tail” In this story, he makes reference to the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – VIOLENCE – CHAMAN – חמנ Habakkuk 1:2: “O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! Even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!” The word for violence in Hebrew is chaman which has extremely broad usages. This is a word that can speak
HEBREW WORD STUDY – FLOWER – TSITS – ציצ Psalms 103:15-17: “As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the LORD [is] from
HEBREW WORD STUDY – INWARD – LBAYITH ל,בית Exodus 25:20: “And the cherubims shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.” II Chronicles 3:13: “The wings of these cherubims spread
HEBREW WORD STUDY – VANITY – HACAL הבל “Job 27:12: “Behold, all of you yourselves have seen (it), why then are you altogether vain?” “If the judge should say to the man, ‘Take the splinter from between your eye.’ He would reply: ‘Take the beam from your between your eye.’” Babylonian Talmud Baba Bathra 15b. “There
HEBREW WORD STUDY – COME 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 word means to draw near, but to draw near with a gift,
