Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar Isaiah 62:5a “For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall they sons marry Thee: The word for marry here is “baal,” yeah the same word that is used for a false god. What could the sages be thinking when they used the same word for marriage that is
Psalm 119:58 I sought Your favor with all my heart; Be gracious to me according to Your word. While choosing a verse for the letter chet, the word sought “chalah” (חלה) caught my attention because one of its meanings has the idea of being lovesick. I also believe it is a play on words with Kallah (כלה) “Bride”
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Numbers 10:35: “And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let your enemies be scattered; and let them that hate you flee before you.” Do you ever stop to think what enemies Moses is talking about? It really does not appear
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Genesis 32:7: “And Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed:” There is a remez here. Why does this verse appear repetitious? He was afraid and distressed. Does not being afraid and distressed mean the same thing? (For the sake of my Hebrew class the word for afraid is not one of
Good Evening Yamon Ki Yesepar; Isaiah 7:11: “Ask of thee a sign of the Lord they God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above?” God spoke to Ahaz through His prophet saying: “Ask.” The Hebrew word is she’ol which means to consult, interrogate. This is followed with a methegh connecting a
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Isaiah 54:11: “O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.” We need to keep in mind that Hebrew is constantly drawing a picture for us. Here the nation of Israel is pictured as a
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Luke 23:31: “For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry tree.?” This is an example of a verse which is unintelligible in the Greek in which it was preserved, but it makes perfect sense when translated into Hebrew. When translating one
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Isaiah 63:9: “In all their affliction he afflicted…” Here is something I have never understood about the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia or the Kittle which is the standard Masoric text used by our Western Christian translators. For you Hebrew students, check out the word “lo” in this passage in your Hebrew
Continuing in Psalm 119 with the letter Zayin ז Psalm 119:54 Your statutes are my songs In the house of my pilgrimage. Statutes is the Hebrew word “chaqaq” (חקק) and means to engrave, prescribe, a law and it also has the idea of boundaries, and limits. The Lord has prescribed in His laws, boundaries for righteous living. He
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Matthew 16:19: “And I will give thee the keys to the kingdom of Heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16:19 is another good example. Due principally to the influence of
