WORD STUDY – PATH Psalms 25:4: “Show me your ways, O’Lord, teach me your paths.” Path – Hebrew: arach – A method of travel down a way, path or road. King David was living in a world of uncertainty, he was at an age where he knew disease could strike him down any minute, radicals
WORD STUDY – AFRAID Job 9:28: “I am afraid of all my sorrow, I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.” Afraid – Hebrew: yagar – To fear for one’s own safety or wellbeing. First let me point out that this word for fear is not the fear used for “fearing the Lord.” That word
WORD STUDY: BIND, LOOSE Matthew 16:19: “And I will give to you the keys to the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” In Matthew 16:19 Jesus gave the keys to the kingdom to Peter and told
WORD STUDY – STRONG DONKEY Genesis 49:14: “Issachar is a strong donkey, crouched down between two burdens.” Strong Donkey – Chamor Garem – Idiomatic expression for a bitter medicine that cures through cleansing the body. There is a sort of play on words here. Issachar comes from the root word “shacar” which means reward, gift,
Jeremiah 31:25: “I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.” Faint – Hebrew: da’avah – To flow away with anxiety and/or distress Jeremiah is speaking of the future restoration of Judah after going through captivity. The word “refresh” in the Hebrew is “ravah” which is very hard to define. You really need to experience
WORD STUDY – HOLD Isaiah 41:13: “For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.” Hold – Hebrew: chazak – Strengthen, confirm, restore. Various translations will say that God “upholds” your right hand, some will say he “takes” your right hand and some will
WORD STUDY – WISE HEART Exodus 35:10: “And all the wise hearted among you shall come and make all that the Lord hath commanded.” Wise – Hebrew: Hacam – teachable, skillful, knowing. Heart – Levav – Heart in the physical sense, life, reasoning, understanding, will, judgment, design, affection, love, hatred, courage, fear, joy, sorrow. Wise
WORD STUDY: TITTLE Luke 16:17; “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle to the law to fall.” Greek: Keras – Tittle, stroke Most of our modern translations translate the word “tittle” as either “stroke of the pen,” “a comma” “a pronunciation mark (which it is not),” “the smallest letter (which
HEBREW WORD STUDY: I WILL BRING BACK MY EXILED PEOPLE Amos 9:14: “I will bring back my exiled people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.” NIV Ephesians 4:8: “Wherefore he said, when he ascended
WORD STUDY – SIN (AVONI) I Kings 17:18: “And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?” Sin – Hebrew: Avoni – Sin, to make crooked We are familiar with the
