HEBREW WORD STUDY – WOUNDS OF A FRIEND – PATS’AI ‘OHAV פצעי אוהב Proverbs 27:6: “Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of the enemy.” I have been obsessing over trying to understand the heart of God so much, maybe I just was missing the obvious. With life’s many
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SOULS THAT THEY HAD GOTTEN – ETH HANEPHESH ‘ASHAR ‘ASHU Genesis 12:5 “And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE FIERY SERPENTS – HANACHASIM HASEREPHIM הנחשׁימ השׁרפימ Numbers 21:6: “And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and much people of Israel died.” Exodus 12:37 mentions that a mixed multitude, an unspecified number of non-Israelites were tagging along during the Exodus. They
HEBREW WORD STUDY – HE DOESN’T DELIGHT IN HORSE – LO HASUS YACHAPITS לא הסוס יחפצ Psalms 147:10: “He delighteth not in the strength of horses; he takes not pleasure in the legs of man.” I often have people ask me what a certain word really mean in Hebrew. That is an unfair question. Maybe for
HEBREW WORD STUDY – JESUS LOVES ME – עלמת אחבוכ Song of Solomon 1:3: “Therefore do the virgins love thee.” We live in a scientific society where there is only one answer to 2+2 and therefore only one interpretation to Scripture. We find our teachers who teach the interpretation we like and then just shut our
HEBREW WORD STUDY – FROM THE DEPTH – MAMA’MAQIM ממעמקימ Ps 130:1: “Song of degrees. “Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.” A song of degrees in Hebrew is hama’aloth shir which literally means Song of Ascents. It has also been rendered as Gradual Psalms, Songs of steps or Pilgrim
HEBREW WORD STUDY – FROM YOUR LAND MA’ARATSOKA מארצכ Genesis 12:1: “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:” I was reading a commentary from Jewish literature and found something interesting in Genesis
HEBREW WORD STUDY – I WILL PUT – ‘ASIM אשׁימ Exodus 15:26: And he said: If thou wilt diligently harken unto the voice of God and will do that which is right in His sight, and will give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon
WORD STUDY – FORMER RAINS- YARAH – ירה Jeremiah 5:24: “Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Few students who have graduated or even attended Moody
