WORD STUDY – INVINCIBLE עוז Psalms 29:11: “The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.” For thousands of years every Jewish child would begin studying Biblical Hebrew at the age of three. The idea was not to prepare them for their bar mitzvah although this is no
WORD STUDY – THE PITS – ~הבורימ Psalm 143:7: “Hear me speedily, O’Lord: my spirit failed: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.” I picked up a Look Magazine from 1957 the other day. I read about a group of teenage hacks. Believe
ן WORD STUDY – JEHOVAH JIREH Genesis 22:8,14: (8) “And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. (14) And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the LORD it
WORD STUDY – MEN OF WAR Joshua 5:6: “For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them
I love word plays, which are often hidden in the English translations but found everywhere in the Hebrew. Word plays are a literary device used used to give greater insight into the intention behind the Author’s words and can also be used for emphasis. A common place where word plays are found are in proper
WORD STUDY – BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.” “Knowledge is power.” Sir Francis Bacon The name of the High School I attended was Steinmetz. It was named after Charles Potius Steinmetz. You really don’t hear much about
WORD STUDY – LIKE WHAT YOU ARE קמר Leviticus 19:18: “But thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Mark 12:31: “And the second is like this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” “Good shepherd, tell this youth what tis to love? It is to be all made of sighs and tears, It is to
WORD STUDY – THE SUN – שׁמשׁ Psalms 84:11 “For the Lord God is a sun and a shield, the Lord gives grace and glory. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.” Sometimes we forget that when we read the Psalms we are reading poetry. This is probably due to the
WORD STUDY – ENGRAVE AND FREE – חרת Exodus 32:16: “And the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables.” “Had the first tablets not been broken, no nation or people could have subjugated the Jewish people, as it is written, ‘Charut on the tablets.’
WORD STUDY – THE ILLUMINATOR AND VERIFIER – התמימה אמימ Exodus 28:30: “ And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim;” Exodus 28 goes into great detail about the garment worn by the high priest. Of course today Jesus is our high priest so how the high priest dressed has
