WORD STUDY – PETER (ARAMAIC) – CEPHAS כפא John 1:42 “And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be (Aramaic uses a pefect tense – are) called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.” Peter’s given name was Simon or Shimon
WORD STUDY – GOOD THING – TOV טוב Proverbs 18:22: “Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.” Practically every modern translation joins in lock step with the KJV and says that finding a wife is finding a good thing. This is obviously translated by men. “Finds a good
WORD STUDY – SHOW HIMSELF FRIENDLY LEHITERO’A’A להתרע Proverbs 18:24: “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” The KJV of this verse never made sense. The two phrases just did not seem to fit. They are like two separate thoughts yet in
WORD STUDY – BOOK OF LIVES SOFAR CHAIM ספרחימ Psalms 69:28: “Let them be blotted out of the book of the life, and not be written with the righteous.” In Hebrew the words for Book of life is sofar chaim. Chaim is a word we recognize as life but this is written in a plural
WORD STUDY – EAT : ‘AKAL אכל John 6:54: “Whosoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood will have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” The word in Aramaic that Jesus spoke for the word eat was ‘akal. There are two possible root words, ‘alakam which means to consume
WORD STUDY – WEARY : APHAH עפיה Jeremiah 31:25: “I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.” God will refresh the weary? Big deal. I get home from work I am weary. I love that feeling of weariness after a hard day of work and I love those little rituals, having dinner, taking a
WORD STUDY – MIGHTY ONES Beni ‘elim Psalms 29:1: “Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.” Who are these mighty ones who are to give strength to the Lord? There is much debate and some modern translations like the NIV will just paraphrase (give their opinion) and say
WORD STUDY – PALSY – (ARAMAIC) שׁרא SHERA’ Matthew 8:6-9: “And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.” Palsy in Aramaic is shera’ which means to be taken. It is the word used when a Jewish man declares that he has taken a bride. In other words he has taken
WORD STUDY – THE LETTER HEI ה Matthew 7:13: “Enter ye at the strait gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat.” Rabbis in the time of Jesus would often illustrate spiritual truths using Hebrew letters. The letter Hei was
WORD STUDY – IMPERFECT – (ARAMAIC) BISHA בישׁא Matthew 7:11: “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” Did Jesus really teach that all fathers who give good gifts to their
