HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD’S WEALTH – SEGULLAH – סגלה Malachi 3:17“They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.” EVS Most translations translate the word segullah as treasure, jewels, possession,
HEBREW WORD STUDY – MY LIGHT – ‘OR אורי Psalms 27:1: “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid.” What does the Psalmist mean when he says that the Lord is “my light.” The word for light
HEBREW WORD STUDY- IT BELONGS TO THE NAME – YIHI SHEM – יהי שׁמ Job 1:21: “The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord.” “Rock, “ he said: “Sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE EIGHTH STRING – HASHEMINITH השׁמינית Psalms 12:1: “To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.” KJV Psalms 12:1: “To Him Who grants victory on the instrument with eight strings, a Psalm of David.” Rabbi Samson Hirsch I find it curious that many modern English translations leave out the
HEBREW WORD STUDY – DIPLOMACY (ARAMAIC) – SHU’ABDA – שׁועבדא 1Timothy 2:11,12: “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. (12) But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. I Corinthians 14:34-35: “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not
HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD HOLDS OUR HAND – ELOHEKA MACHAZIQ YAMINAKA אלהיכ קיחמ ימינכ Isaiah 41:13: “For I the Lord thy God will uphold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.” Various translations will say that God “upholds” your right hand, some will say he “takes’ your right hand and
HEBREW WORD STUDY – TRUTH – ‘EMIT אמת John 14:6: “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 4:24 Jesus said; “God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth.” I
HEBREW WORD STUDY – BEAR A GRUDGE – NATAR נתר Leveticus 19:18: “Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.” We are all familiar with the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. But this commandment
HEBREW WORD STUDY – INHABIT ETERNITY – SHAKAK ‘AD שׁככ עד Isaiah 57:15: “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabited eternity…” I was reading an article published by Vanderbilt University regarding the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. The Hadron Collider is the world’s largest atom smasher and this article said that it could
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE MANUFACTURER – O’OSAH עשׁה Psalms 121:2: “My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.” I was reading this verse in my Hebrew Bible and I was intrigued by the Psalmist’s use of the word ‘osah which practically every translator renders as made or create. It is curious that
