ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – THE GIFT OF THE MAGI –קורגא מגושׁא Matthew 2:11: “And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.” The identity of the
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – MERCY SEAT – חוסיא Hebrew 9:5: “And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.” The Greek word for mercy seat is hilasterion and is not a word found in extra-Biblical literature, it appears to be a word that Paul might have coined
HEBREW WORD STUDY – HANDMAID – MISHPACHAH – משׁפחה Genesis 30:4: “And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.” Reading Genesis 30 can really leave your head spinning as you read about all these children being born from four different women from Jacob. Let’s see you start off
HEBREW WORD STUDY – KEEP NOT THOU SILENCE – ‘AL DEMI LAKE ל כ דמי אל Ps 83:1 (2): “A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.” I John 5:14 tell us that we must ask what we want from God. If we do
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE SUN ALSO ARISES – ZARACH HASHEMESH זרח השׁמשׁ Ecclesiastes 1:5: “The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.” Let me share with you something very profound spoken by the wisest man on earth through the inspiration of God. “The sun also
HEBREW WORD STUDY – HAPPEN UPON Numbers 23:4 “And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.” “Nothing is coincidental; every event is purposeful and significant” Old Chassidic saying I read something interesting in Jewish literature in the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – LAMED KAP לככ Psalms 63:4: “Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.” I think we all have been in worship services where a worship leader will exhort, although to me it seems more like a scold, the congregation to lift their hands when
HEBREW WORD STUDY – RAGE – YACHEM יחמ Psalms 90:7: “For we are consumed by thine anger, by thy wrath we are consumed.” It is three o’clock in the morning and I cannot sleep thanks to my S-O C-A-L- L-E-D FRIENDS…. Yod, Chet Mem (Yachem – rage). “What!?, now don’t you dare approach my Looking
HEBREW WORD STUDY – TO PRETEND – LO’ NAKAR Job 24:13: “They are those who rebel against the light, they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.” Titus 1:15: “Unto the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind
HEBREW WORD STUDY – NOT BE WEAKENED – BAL ‘EMOT בל אמוט Psalms 16:7: “I have set the Lord always before me, because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. “I have set the Lord before me.” That is a loaded statement. The word rendered as set is shavah which has
