HEBREW WORD STUDY – PURELY PURGE – ESTEROP KAVAR אצרף כבר Alpeh Sade Resh Pei Kap Beth Resh Isaiah 1:25: “I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all they tin.” I’m a little hunk of tin, Nobody knows what I’ve might have been Got four
HEBREW WORD STUDY – STOP RIGHT THERE – SELAH – סלה Samek, Lamed Hei Psalms 62:8-9: “Trust in him at all times; [ye] people, pour out your heart before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.” This Psalm is believed to be written by David or at a later date then David when the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – BROKENESS – TERUAH – תרועה Taw Resh Vav Ayin Hei Psalms 89:15: “Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.” The Bible is full of people who are blessed. You are blessed if you study the Word of
HEBREW WORD STUDY – INVESTMENT – LAVAH לוה Lamed Vav Hei Isa 56:6-7 “Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my
HEBREW WORD STUDY – OVERWHELMED – BA’ATROPH בעטף Beth Ayin Teth Final Pei Psalm 61:2: “From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.” I read in the Sefer HaMaamarim (Book of the Discourses) used by Chasidic Jews
HEBREW WORD STUDY – UNSALTED FISH – TIPHELAH תפלה Taw Pei Lamed Hei Jeremiah 23:13: “And I have seen the unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.” I grew up in a fundamentalist Baptist church which taught that prophets no longer existed. I went
HEBREW WORD STUDY – CURSE – ‘ARUR ארור Aleph Resh Vav Resh Jeremiah 17:5: “Thus saith the Lord, ‘Curse be the man that trust in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart turns away from God.” Jeremiah lived at the same time as Nahum. However, where Nahum dealt with the coming
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE LAME HORSE – YAGUN יגון Yod Gimmel Vav Final Nun Psalms 31:10, “For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.” David is saying that his life is filled with grief. Some translations say it
HEBREW WORD STUDY – HEWN STONE – GAZIT גזית Gimmel Zayin Yod Taw Isaiah 9:10: “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stone, the sycamores are cut down but we will change them into cedars.” After 9-11 the House Minority Leader Tom Daschle, addressed the Congress and nation quoting this
HEBREW WORD STUDY – I WILL TREASURE – TESPANETHI צפנתי Sade Pei Nun Taw Yod Psalms 119:11: “Your word have I have I hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against you.” “Trifles light as air, are to the jealous confirmation proofs as truth of holy writ.” Iago –– Othello – Shakespeare.
