• Hebrew Word Study – Unsavory –  Tapel – Taw Pei Lamed Psalms 65:2: “O you who hear prayer, to you all me will come.” This word for hear is shama and is very difficult to translate as we really do not have an all-purpose English word to convey its intent.   If we render it as

  • Hebrew Word Study – Burdened with Pain – ‘Iq   Ayin Yod Qop  Amos 2:12-13: “But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Prophecy not.’  Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.” Amos is a contemporary of Isaiah, Micah, and Hosea. 

  • ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – THE WEDDING DANCE – CHADOTHA חדותא  Cheth Daleth Vav Taw Aleph Hebrews 12:2: “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

  • Hebrew Word Study – Speak to Her Heart – Divaeti al Livah – Daleth Beth Resh Taw Yod  Ayin Lamed   Lamed Beth Hei Hosea 2:14: “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.”   I remember as a child I was so terrified that I wasn’t

  • ​Hebrew Word Study – Feign – Shaqar   Shin Qop Resh   Jeremiah 3:10: “And yet for all this  her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord.” We have to realize that at the time of this prophecy, Judah was a very religious nation.  They

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  • Hebrew Word Study – All Alone – Yachid – Yod Cheth Yod Daleth  Psalms  25:16: “Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am alone and afflicted.” “Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone.  And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of

  • Hebrew Word Study – Unsavory –  Tapel – Taw Pei Lamed Psalms 65:2: “O you who hear prayer, to you all me will come.” This word for hear is shama and is very difficult to translate as we really do not have an all-purpose English word to convey its intent.   If we render it as

  • Hebrew Word Study – Burdened with Pain – ‘Iq   Ayin Yod Qop  Amos 2:12-13: “But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Prophecy not.’  Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.” Amos is a contemporary of Isaiah, Micah, and Hosea. 

  • Hebrew Word Study – Unfaithful Spouse – Zanah – Zayin Nun Hei 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.  Little is known about Hosea.  What we do know is