QUICK WORD STUDY – REPOSITORY – ‘AHAL אהל Aleph Hei Lamed Genesis 18:10: “And Sarah heard it in the tent door which was behind him.” I was reading in an ancient rabbinical work which noted that there was no preposition in the original text before the word door. Rabbi Shimon in this ancient text
HEBREW WORD STUDY – CRAVINGS – SHE’ELAH שאל Shin Aleph Lamed Numbers 11:4-5: “And the mixt multitude that [was] among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? (5) We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely…” Psalms 106:15:
HEBREW WORD STUDY – ISAAC – YITSECHAQ יצחק Yod Sade Cheth Qop Genesis 17:19: “And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after him.” Isaac was the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – LOVE THE LORD – ‘AHAVATH ETH YAHVAH אהבת את יהוה Deuteronomy 6:5: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.” Mt 22:37: “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
HEBREW WORD STUDY – I DESIRE MERCY – CHESED HAPATSETI חסד חפצתי Cheth Pei Sader Taw Yod Cheth Samek Daleth Hosea 6:6: “For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. “ Is it not odd that a pronoun (I) is used in the first phrase but
HEBREW WORD STUDY – WATCHMAN – TSAPHAR צפר Habakkuk: 5:1, “I will stand upon my watch, and set myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.” The other day I was in my sitting in my car preparing for
HEBREW WORD STUDY – NINETY AND NINE – TISH’EIM VATASHA’ תעימ ותשׁע Exodus 17:1: “And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.” Ninety-nine years old may or may not be the same as our
HEBREW WORD STUDY – PLAYING – שחק Shin Cheth Qop II Samuel 6:14, 21: ”And David danced before the Lord with all his might.” (21) And David said unto Michal, [It was] before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – TOO HARD – QASHAH קשה Qop Shin Hei Deuteronomy 1:17b. “And the thing which is too hard for you, you shall bring near to me and I shall hear it.” The context of this passage is a message delivered by Moses who instructed the elders to judge matters of conflicts
HEBREW WORD STUDY – WITH ALL YOUR HEART Deuteronomy 6:5: “And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” The heart, the source of all our passion, is very important in our relationship with God and this is shown in the Hebrew.
