WORD STUDY – THE BANQUET Esther 5:4, “And Esther answered, If it seems good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.” I have spent many years studying the history and culture of the Persian Empire and I find no suggestion of any
WORD STUDY – HAND יד Exodus 17:11: “And it came to pass when Moses held up his hand that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.” Some have suggested that Moses holding his hand up was sort of like a battle flag. In the heat of battle, you are not sure whether
WORD STUDY – SACKCLOTH -שׁקק Jonah 3:8: “But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; yea let them turn everyone from their evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.” About six years ago the nation was flooded with billboards announcing that “Judgment Day Is Coming.
WORD STUDY – BELA בנא Genesis 36:32: “And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah.” Actually, this verse should literally reads from the Hebrew as: “And the King of Edom was Bela the son of Beor and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah.” Yeah, I
WORD STUDY – MANSIONS – (ARAMAIC) אנוא John 14:2: “In my father’s house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you.” I once had a friend named George who was a former Greek teacher. In fact he was not only fluent in the Biblical Koine Greek but modern Greek as
WORD STUDY – WANDERING DESIRE 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 an enigmatic old man
WORD STUDY – NAHSHON – נהשׁנ Num 7:12 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah: I am amazed at how Christians will talk of their love for the Word of God but (by my guess) only spend their time, at best, studying
WORD STUDY – A HUSBAND OF BLOOD Exodus 4:24-26: “And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody
WORD STUDY – GREEN – Yod Resh Qop Isaiah 15:6: “For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate, for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.” Today my study partner was telling me about a personality test and that these test assigned certain personalities a color. It has been
WORD STUDY – A GOOD SPIRIT II 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.” – Sophocles The spelling
