WORD STUDY – WORM – תולע Isaiah 41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. There are a couple unusual things about this passaged. One that really stands out is that God refers to Israel two times.
WORD STUDY – OVERCOME – נלד Jeremiah 33:3: “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” Today I attended a meeting at a place called The Father’s House. They had a time of worship and a song was sung which was based
WORD STUDY – IT IS I הני Isaiah 52:6: “Therefore my people shall know my name, Therefore they shall know in that day, that I am He that doth speak, behold it is I.” “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Juliet
WORD STUDY – IN HARMONY WITH GOD – נטח Jeremiah 7:24: “But they harkened not nor inclined their ear.” I get the part of not harkening unto the Word of God which is the context here. I mean God spells out in his Word what we are to do and not to do.
WORD STUDY – FOR THE SAKE OF I Kings 11:13: “Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; [but] will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.” I remember an orthodox rabbi once telling me: “You Christians, you just don’t
WORD STUDY – HATE – שׁנה Psalms 139:21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? Reading this verse in the English gives me a very unsettling feeling. Every translation I read this verse in uses the word
WORD STUDY – TAKE CAPTIVE – שׁבה Numbers 10:35-36: “Whenever the ark set out, Moses said: ‘Arise O’Lord let the enemy be scattered, may your foes flee before you.’ Whenever it came to rest, he said: ‘Return Lord to the countless thousands of Israel.’” This passage is set off in the original Torah Scrolls
WORD STUDY – ONE, ECHAD OR YACHID Deuteronomy 6:4: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:” “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than dreamt of in your philosophy.” Shakespeare Hamlet Act I, Scene 5 I try not to deal with theology as that is an area
WORD STUDY – EVERYTHINGS UNDER CONTROL – מברחב Psalms 118:5: “I called upon the Lord in my distress; the Lord answered me and set me in a large place.” So there you have it. Whenever you are in distress just call upon the Lord and He will set you in a large place. Just
