HEBREW WORD STUDY – ANOINTED – MASHACH משׁח Psalms 105:14, “He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” Do not touch God’s anointed is a favorite line of many preachers used to silence their critics. I often wondered
HEBREW WORD STUDY – PRECIOUS ONE CHAMAD חמד Song of Solomon 2:3: “As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. “ It is interesting that the writer
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SLEEP – YASHAN ישׁנ Psalms 121:4: “Behold, he that keepth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.” King Solomon had twenty armed guards, the elite, the best of the best warriors guarding his bed chamber every night. President Trump has guards at every gate of the White House, a full detail of Secret Service
HEBREW WORD STUDY: DOG – KELEV כלב Exodus 11:7: “And against the children of Israel no dog shall wag its tongue.” In Hebrew the word for dog is Kelev. The root word is kala which is not used in the Bible but is found in extra Biblical literature and is onomatopoeic. Onomatopoeic is the
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY: BIND, LOOSE – ASAR SHARA’ אשׁר שׁרא Matthew 16:19: “And I will give to you the keys to the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” In Matthew 16:19 Jesus gave the keys to the
HEBREW WORD STUDY: MY DEAREST – (Aramaic) דרי אלהי DARI ALAHI John 20:28: “And Thomas answered and said unto him: My Lord and my God.” The passage in John 20:27-29 in the Greek tells us is: Ho, kuios mou, Ho Theos mou. My Lord and my God. Some liberal theologians have tried to dismiss that last
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – AIR KISS – סגד SEGAD John 4:23: “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.” This word for worship in the Greek really has me spooked. It is the word proskyneo. Now
HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD’S SINGING – יהוה זמר YHWH ZAMAR Psalms 118:13-14: “Thou pushed me hard and I nearly fell, But the Lord helped me. The Lord is my strength and my song and He has become my salvation.” A rabbi once told me that we should read Psalm 118:14 as: “The Lord is my strength
HEBREW WORD STUDY – IDOL – ‘ATSAVIM עצבימ Hosea 14:8: “Ephraim shall say, What have I to do anymore with idols, I have heard him and observed him, I am like a green fir tree, from me is thy fruit found. The Hebrew word for idol is a strange word to be used for idol. It
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – BODY OF MOSES – PAGARA DAMOSHA פלרא דמושׁא Jude 1:9: “Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” The Aramaic word for body is pagara which could mean a corpse or
