HEBREW WORD STUDY – NOISE LIKE A DOG – YEHEMU KAKALEV יהמו ככלב Yod Hei Mem Vav Kap Kap Lamed Beth Lamentations 3:63: “Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick.” Psalms 59:14: “And at evening let them return; [and] let them make a noise like a dog, and go
HEBREW WORD STUDY – LIKE THE HEAT OF THE DAY – KECHOM HAYOM כחם היום Kap Cheth Mem Hei Yod Vav Mem ”Genesis 18:1: “And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; As I was preparing for this
HEBREW WORD STUDY – TEST, BANNER, MIRACLE – NASAH נסה Nun Samek Hei Genesis 22:1: “And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, [here] I [am].” All the English translations I checked (24 of them) say God tested Abraham. One says
HEBREW WORD STUDY – BURDEN OF PAIN – ‘AVAQ עוק Ayin Vav 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 – ENGRAVENED – CHAQAQ חקק Cheth Qop Qop “Isaiah 49:15-16: “Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son if her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have engraven thee upon the palm of my hand, thy walls
HEBREW WORD STUDY – REDEMPTION OF THE FIRSTBORN – PIDYON HABEN פדיון הבן Exodus 13:2: “Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, [both] of man and of the beast: it [is] mine.” Luke 2:22-23: “And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – MERCY SEAT – חוסיא Hebrew 9:5: “And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.” The Greek word for mercy seat is hilasterion and is not a word found in extra-Biblical literature, it appears to be a word that Paul might have coined
HEBREW WORD STUDY – MOUNTAIN – HAR הר Hei Resh Deuteronomy 2:3: “Enough of your circling this mountain, turn yourself north.” Years ago I saw a book in a Christian bookstore which was titled: “One More Lap Around The Mountain.” That title sure can strike home to many of us. The word “mountain” in the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – PRIDE & ARROGANCE – GA’OWN גאון Gimmel Aleph Vav Nun Ezekiel 16:9: “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.” NIV If I were to ask the average Christian why God destroyed
HEBREW WORD STUDY – TITHE – ‘ESER עשר Ayin Sine Resh Numbers 18:24: “For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer up as a heave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.”
