ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – GRINDING UP TO BE ABSORBED – PALAK פלח Pei Lamed Cheth Daniel 6:16: “The king spake and said unto Daniel: “Thy God whom thou serves continually, He will deliver you.” In researching my doctoral dissertation, I came across something very curious which may serve to shed some light on King
ARAMAIC STUDY – LOOKING TO JESUS – CHOR חור Cheth Vav Resh 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.” We throw these
HEBREW WORD STUDY – A NEW SONG – SIR CHADASH שיר חדש Shin Yod Resh Cheth Daleth Shin Psalms 96:1 “O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.” In 1910 Luther B. Bridgers was an evangelist serving God in the Southern States of American by holding
WORD STUDY – AN ABUSIVE HUSBAND – BAALI בעלי “Hosea 2:16: And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord that You shall me Ishi (my husband) and shall call me no more Baali (my master).” At this point in the relationship between Hosea and his wife, she is calling him baali, my master.
HEBREW WORD STUDY – A CONSUMING FIRE – KAESH כאשׁ 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 I was weary with forebearing and I could not
HEBREW WORD STUDY – WHERE ARE YOU – AYEKAH – איכה Aleph Yod Kap Hei Genesis 3:9: “And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto Adam, ‘Where are you?’” נLately with my Hebrew class on our All Access I have been encouraging my students to think out of the box. Just because a
HEBREW WORD STUDY – IN THE BEGINNING (OF TIME) – BERA’SHITH בראשית Beth Resh Aleph Shin Yod Taw Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Something that has always fascinated me was how Christians tend to come entirely unglued with evolution. Books have been written trying to debunk evolution, societies
HEBREW WORD STUDY – CONCENTRATION OF ENERGY – ‘ETSAH עצה Ayin Sade Hei Genesis 2:9: “And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SONS OF GOD – BENEI ELOCHIM בני אלוחים Beth Nun Yod Aleph Lamed Vav Cheth Yod Mem Genesis 6:2: “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.” I remember when I first heard that
ARMAIC WORD STUDY – ARMOR THAT SHINES – ZINA – זינא Zayin, Yod, Nun Aleph Ephesians 6:11: “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” Oh, the precious memories this verse brings back to me. I first heard about the armor of
