• HEBREW WORD STUDY – TRANSMUTATION – QALAL קלל Qop Lamed Lamed Lamentations 3:38: “Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?” Isaiah 45:7: “I form light and create darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.” Jeremiah 32:42: “For this is what the LORD

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY- CREATING A FOG – HAVEL הבל Hei Beth Lamed Job 27:12: “Behold, all of you yourselves have seen (it), why then are you altogether vain?” “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in your own eye.” Matthew 7:3 “If the

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – FOR ALL THE OPPRESSED –  LACAL ‘ASHAQIM לכל עשׁוקימ  Psalms 103:6: “The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.” So just how does righteousness and judgment help the oppressed?  If I am oppressed I would just be satisfied that the oppressor gets off my back.  If God wants to administer

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – WOUNDS OF A FRIEND  – PATS’AI   ‘OHAV  פצעי אוהב   Proverbs 27:6: “Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of the enemy.” I have been obsessing over trying to understand the heart of God so much, maybe I just was missing the obvious.   With life’s many difficulties

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – WINE CELLAR – BIYTH HAYAYIN בית היין Beth Yod Taw Hei Yod Yod Nun Song of Solomon 2:4: “He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.” Many of us remember that children’s song we used to sing in Sunday School where we made little hand motions of

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – PLANS – MAHESHEBETH – מחשבות Mem Cheth Shin Beth Vav Taw Jeremiah 11:29: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” I hear this verse a lot from preachers and

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – A PORTAL – ETS עצה Ayin Sade Hei Deuteronomy 20:19: “When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – WEARINESS – YAGAR יגר Yod Gimmel Resh Isaiah 43:22 “Yet you have not called on Me, O Jacob; But you have become weary of Me, O Israel.” The Jews are known in the Old Testament as the children of Israel and the House of Jacob. Why two different names? As you

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – FOR ALL THE OPPRESSED –  LACAL ‘ASHAQIM לכל עשׁוקימ   Psalms 103:6: “The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.” So just how do righteousness and judgment help the oppressed?  If I am oppressed I would just be satisfied that the oppressor gets off my back.  If God wants to administer

  • HEBREW WORD STUDY – EZRA PREPARED HIS HEART – ‘EZRA HAKIN LEVEVU עזרא הכינ לבבו Ezra 7:10: “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.” You read about Ezra and find a man who loved God with all his heart, soul,