HEBREW WORD STUDY – SWEET – MOTAQ – מותק Song of Solomon 2:3 “As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.” Commentators generally teach that the Shulamite woman was
HEBREW WORD STUDY – CRY MIGHTILY – YAQARAU BACHAZAQAH – בחזקה יקראו Jonah 3:8: “But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; yea let them turn everyone from their evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.” A few years ago the nation was flooded with
HEBREW WORD STUDY – FISHERMEN – LEDYAGIM לדוגימ Jeremiah 16:16: “Behold, I will send many fishermen says the Lord and they shall fish them and afterward I will send for many hunters and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.” There is a hint
HEBREW WORD STUDY: DOVE – YONAH יונה Matthew 3:16: “And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him” Zohar, Reference number 68:3-4 – “A portal shall be opened,
HEBREW WORD STUDY – ENCHANTED – CHARASH חרשׁ Zephaniah 3:17: “The Lord your God in the midst of you is mighty. He will save, He will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest in his love, He will joy over you with singing. For me, this verse is the best expression of God’s love
HEBREW WORD STUDY – HIS PLEASURE –RATSAH ר צונו Psalms 103:21: “Bless ye the LORD, all [ye] his hosts; [ye] ministers of his, that do his pleasure.” Rabbis Solomon Hirsch, a linguist and Hebrew master indicated that the word for minister in Hebrew which is sharath is closely related to the word sharat. That is
HEBREW WORD STUDY – FILTHY RAGS – BAGAD ‘IDIM בגד עדימ Isaiah 64:6: “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” This is a favorite verse when you are
HEBREW WORD STUDY – EVERLASTING LOVE – ‘OLAM ‘AHAVATH Jeremiah 31:3 “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” “Never to make a line I have not heard in my own heart.” – Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
HEBREW WORD STUDY – TRAVEL – NASA’ נסע Numbers 33:1: “These are the travels of the Children of Israel.” “Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled.” Robert Frost The Jewish sages are well known for their inyans. An inyan is a spiritual concept, A general idea as
HEBREW WORD STUDY – OPEN MY LIPS – SEPHATI TIPHETHACH שׁפתי תפתח Psalms 51:15: “Oh Lord open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.” “Is the Psalmist saying he will not praise the Lord if God does not open his lips and what does he mean by opening his lips? Most Christians and
