HEBREW WORD STUDY – LET THERE BE LIGHT – YEHI ‘OHR יהי אור Yod Hei Yod Aleph Vav Resh Genesis 1:3: “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” And God said; “Yehi ohr” “Let there be light.” Grammatical this is an antiptosis which is a rhetorical device in which one grammatical
HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD IS FOR ME – ELOHIM LI Psalm 56:9: “When I cry unto thee shall my enemies turn away. This I know for God is for me.” “Diplomacy is the art of saying: “Nice doggy,” while looking for a big club.” – Will Rodgers “When I cry…” The word “cry” is
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SIN – CHATA’ – חטא Cheth Teth Alelp Psalms 51:4: “Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.” I once had a roommate in Bible College who greeted me on
HEBREW WORD STUDY – AN IMTIMATE VISIT – PAQAD פקד Pei Qop Daleth Psalms 17:3 “Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night.” If you have ever celebrated the Sabbath evening with a Jewish orthodox family you will notice they leave their doors open during the Sabbath night prayers (or pray
HEBREW WORD STUDY – HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS – ‘AVADAV HANEV’IM עבדיו הנביאים Ayin Beth Daleth Yod Vav Hei Nun Beth Yod Aleph Yod Mem Amos 3:3-7: “Can two walk together, unless they are agreed? (4) Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out
HEBREW WORD STUDY – ONE IN A THOUSAND – ‘ECHAD ME’EALPH – אחד מאלף Aleph Cheth Daleth Mem Aleph Lamed Pei Ecclesiastes 7:26-29: “And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be
HEBREW WORD STUDY – LONELINESS – ‘AR’AR ערר Ayin Resh Resh Psalms 102:17: “He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.” There is something unsettling about this verse. God will only regard the prayers of the destitute? I hear the word regard and in my mind, I am thinking that
HEBREW WORD STUDY – A GIFT – ZEBULUN – זבלון Zayin Beth Lemed Vav Nun Isaiah 9:1 “But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish, In the former time He brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in later time he has made glorious the
WORD STUDY – SOJOURNER – גר Gimmel Resh Psalms 119:19: “I [am] a sojourner in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.” For many years I have read this verse in the King James Version which uses the word stranger rather than sojourner. Many other translations say a foreigner. I never understood how that last
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SOUL – NESHAMA – נשמה Nun Shin Mem Hei Psalms 150:6: “Let everything that has a soul praise God – Hallujah.” The Talmud teaches that the word soul (neshama) and breath (neshima) are related. The soul fills the entire body, and when a person sleeps, it rises to draw down life
