HEBREW WORD STUDY – SPEAK TO SAY DEBAR LA’AMAR Leviticus 23:1 “And the LORD said unto Moses saying…” I looked at 26 Modern English translations of the Bible and only 16 of the 26 really translated this passage word for word. Many translations just take the repeating of the word “speak” or say
HEBREW WORD STUDY – A WONDER – KEMOPATH כמופת Kap Mem Vav Pei Taw Psalms 71:7: “I am as a wonder unto many, but thou art my strong refuge” “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” The Wonderful Wizard of Oz I tend to get many flattering comments and reviews on my books
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SABOTAGE – SA’AD סעד Samek Ayin Daleth Psalms 94:18: “When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. During a run on my disability bus today I was talking with someone who was terrified of making a truly major decision in her life. She was so afraid
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE SOURCE – AYIN עין Ayin Yod Nun I Samuel 18:9: “And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.” I remember hearing an evangelist tell of a time he went to a church in some backwater town on the other side of the tracks. He was asked to conduct a
HEBREW WORD STUDY – PEACE LIKE A RIVER – KANAHAR SHALOM כהנר שלום Kap Hei Nun Resh Shin Lamed Vav Mem Isaiah 48:18: “O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:” “When you put your hand in a
HEBREW WORD STUDY – DANCE FOR JOY – CHUL חול Cheth Vav Lamed. Lamentations 3:26: “It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.” This is an interesting thought. We should wait and hope for the salvation of the Lord. I thought we are to know
HEBREW WORD STUDY – IT’S OK CHASAH חסה Cheth Samek Hei Nahum 1:7 The LORD [is] good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. Nahum was a prophet around 600 BC. The Northern ten tribes of Israel had already been taken into captivity by the Assyrian Empire.
HEBREW WORD STUDY – A CONSUMING FIRE – KE’ESH BE’ARET –בערת כעש Kap Ayin Shin Beth Ayin Resh Taw Jeremiah 20:9: “Then I said, I will not make mention of him nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire and shut up in my bones, and
HEBREW WORD STUDY – BREAD OF ADVERSITY – LECHEM TSAR לחם צר Lamed Cheth Mem Sade Resh Isaiah 30:20: “And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, your teachers be hidden no more, but thine eyes shall see they teachers:” Translators appear to have been very careful to
HEBREW WORD STUDY – EARTHLY PRAISE – YODAH ידה Psalms 30:9 “What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit. Will the dust praise thee, will it declare your faithfulness?” It is believed that David wrote this Psalm during a time of illness when he thought he was going to
