HEBREW WORD STUDY – I WILL SING – ‘ASHIRAH Psalms 104:33: “I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.” Mark 5:30: “And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press,
HEBREW WORD STUDY – HE MADE OTHERS CALL – ויקרי Genesis 12:8: “And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he built an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE POOR – DALAL דלל Psalms 41:1 “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The other day as I was driving my disability bus through the inner city of Chicago. This was in the
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – FAIR TRADE FOR PROFIT – YATANA’ יותנא Philippians 1:21: “For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.” All my life when I faced a crisis I sought the peace of God but I was often was very unsuccessful in finding that peace until God finally put things
HEBREW WORD STUDY – BREAD OF AFFLICTION – LECHEM TSAR לחמ צר Isaiah 30:20: “And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see them, teachers:” There are no tenses in Hebrew, however, we do
HEBREW WORD STUDY – CALLINGS OF HOLINESS – MIQR’EI KODESH Leviticus 23:2: “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts.” Jewish Hebrew Masters render Leviticus quite a bit differently than Christians do.
HEBREW WORD STUDY – CHARIOTS OF FIRE – RAKAV ISH II Kings 6:17: “And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SPEAK TO SAY DEBAR LA’AMAR Leviticus 23:1 “And the LORD said unto Moses saying…” I looked at 26 Modern English translations of the Bible and only 16 of the 26 really translated this passage word for word. Many translations just take the repeating of the word speak or say
HEBREW WORD STUDY – PLEASE – RATSAH רצה Psalms 40:14 “Be pleased, O Lord to save me. O’Lord come quickly to help me.” Most certainly David should get this prayer answered, after all, he used the magic word “Please.” In English the word “please” is a 14th-century word derived from the word pleasure. It came into use
HEBREW WORD STUDY – OUR SONG ZAMARAH זמרה Exodus 15:2: “The LORD [is] my strength and song,” This song was sung, or as I explained in an earlier study they spoke the song at this time but will sing it at a later date which is yet to come. What does really fascinate me is
