HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE FULLNESS OF JOY – SOBA SEMACHOT שבע שמחות Sine Beth Ayin Sine Mem Cheth Vav Taw Psalms 16:11: “You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” Well, today was just one of those days driving my disability bus. Most
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – RABBONI – MY TEACHER – רבני Resh Beth Nun Yod John 20:11-12,16: “But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, [and looked] into the sepulcher,12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – THE WEDDING DANCE – CHADOTHA חדותא Cheth Daleth Vav Taw Aleph Matthew 27:46: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying ‘Eli, Eli Lama Sabachthani?’ that is My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” This being Easter Week, I would like to share with
HEBREW WORD STUDY – A POSITIVE IMAGINATION – SAVAR – סברא SAMEK BETH RESH ALEPH Genesis 30:37: “Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees and peeled white stripes in them exposing the white which was in the rods. And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of
HEBREW WORD STUDY – A PURE HEART – LEV TAHOR לב טהור Lamed Beth Teth Hei Vav Resh Psalm 51:10: “Create in me a clean heart, O’God and renew a right spirit within me.” I remember years ago an orthodox Jewish rabbi, showed me a special room in his house. It was filled with
HEBREW WORD STUDY – A NET – RESHETH רשת Resh Shin Taw Psalms 25:15: “Mine eyes [are] ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.” Practically all commentators agree that when the Psalmist says that the Lord will pluck his feet out of the net, that this is clearly
HEBREW WORD STUDY – FILTHY RAGS – YEBEGED ‘IDIM בגד עדים Beth Gimmel Daleth Ayin Daleth Yod Mem Isaiah 64:6, “But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousness’s [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SACRED PROSTITUTE – KODASHAH קדשה Qop Daleth Shin Hei Ezekiel 36:21: “Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, I do not this for your sakes O house of Israel, but for mine holy names sake which you have profaned among the heather, whether you went.” What
HEBREW WORD STUDY – SIMPLE – PATHAH פתה Pei Taw Hei Psalms 116:6: “The Lord preserves the simple, I was brought low and He helped me.” “Ich bin anar un ich gleib.” (I am a fool and I believe) Rabbi Noach of Lechovitz. “You mean people actually believe what we write in there?”
ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – BELIEVE – HAYMAN הימן Hei Yod Mem Nun Acts 16:30-31: “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? (31) And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” I have always wondered about this passage
