Devotionals

HEBREW  WORD STUDY – PROMPT – NADAV  נדב  Nun Daleth Beth Exodus 25:1-2:  “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart prompts him, you shall take My offering.’” Why did God want the people to donate their gold, silver

HEBREW WORD STUDY – NARROW –  TSAROTH  צרות   Psalms 25:17:  “The troubles of my heart are enlarged: [O] bring thou me out of my distresses” “When sorrows come they come not single spies but in battalions”  Claudius in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet Act IV Scene V The word for trouble here is tsaroth from the root

HEBREW WORD STUDY – REASON WITH GOD – YEHOKECH  ‘EL   הוכחnn אל    Job 13:3: “Surely I would speak to the Almighty and I desire to reason with God.”  I really can’t blame Job for wanting to reason with God.  After all, God can be so unreasonable at times.  I would like to just sit

HEBREW WORD STUDY – ABOVE MY ENEMIES –  ‘AL  ‘AVI   על.  אבי  Psalms 27:6: “And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.” ‘Adu “aduyi Hooweh Ssadikki  – 

HEBREW WORD STUDY – APPROACHABLE –  QARUV   קרוב    Isaiah 55:6: “Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon Him while He is near.” It used to be and still is a custom in many churches that when the Sunday morning service ends everyone goes outside and forms little groups to just talk. 

HEBREW WORD STUDY – VAMPIRE – ALUKAH –   עלוקה Proverbs 30:15-16: “The leech has two daughters, “Give,” “Give.” There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say: “Enough.” Sheol, and the barren womb, Earth, that is never satisfied with water and fire that never says: “Enough.” The basic theme of Proverbs

HEBREW WORD STUDY – VAMPIRE – ALUKAH –  עלוקה Proverbs 30:15-16: “The leech has two daughters, “Give,” “Give.” There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say: “Enough.” Sheol, and the barren womb, Earth, that is never satisfied with water and fire that never says: “Enough.” The basic theme of

HEBREW WORD STUDY – CATTLE PROD – LAMED – ל מד   Isaiah 29:13:  “Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:” Mark 7:18:

HEBREW WORD STUDY – STUBBORN  – CHAZAQ  חזק    Malachi 3:13-14: “Your words have been stout against me” saith the Lord.  Yet you say: “What have we spoken against you.” You have said: “It is vain to serve God and what profit is there that we have kept his ordinance? And that we have walked mournfully

HEBREW WORD STUDY – SILENT TO ME – CHASHAH  MIMENI  תחשׁח. ממני   Psalms 28:1 “Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.” The word for pit is bore in Hebrew which could mean