ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – OUTER DARKNESS – CHOSHUKA BARI חשוכא ברי Cheth Shin Vav Kap Aleph Beth Resh Yod Matthew 8:12: “But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” I grew up in a fundamentalist church where there were many fire
HEBREW WORD STUDY – HIDDEN TIMES – TA’EL LE’OTH תעל לעת Psalms 10:1 “Why standest thou afar off, O’Lord, Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble.” David finds himself in trouble and seeks the Lord and the Lord seems to be very distant. I think we can all relate to David as when we
HEBREW WORD STUDY – JEALOUSY – QUANA’ קנא Qop Nun Aleph Zephaniah 1:18: “Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. But the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy.” “O’ beware, my lord of jealousy, for it is
HEBREW WORD STUDY – WRATH – ‘AVAR עבר Ayin Beth Resh Zephaniah 1:18: “Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. But the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy.” There was a conference in France for a large number
HEBREW WORD STUDY – PROSPEROUS – SHALAH שלה Shin Lamed Hei Psalms 30:7-8: “And in my prosperity, I said I shall never be moved. Lord by thy favor thou has made my mountain to stand strong; thou did hide thy face and I was troubled.” I remember hearing a Christian Psychologist tell the story of
HEBREW WORD STUDY – WRATH – ‘AVAR עבר Ayin Beth Resh Zephaniah 1:18: “Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. But the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy.” There was a conference in France for a large number
HEBREW WORD STUDY – GUILT ‘ASHEM אשם Aleph Shin Final Mem Leviticus 5:19: “It [is] a guilt offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the LORD.” Genesis 6:6: “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” I always felt uncomfortable with the rendering
HEBREW WORD STUDY – HEEL – ‘EIQEV עקב Ayin Qop Beth Deuteronomy 7:11-12 “Thou shalt, therefore, keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. (12) Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SADNESS – ‘ASTAB – עצב Ayin Sade Beth Genesis 6: 6: “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” This is a very revealing verse on the nature of God. The word for repent is nacham which is
