WORD STUDY: MY LORD AND MY GOD John 20:28: “And Thomas answered and said unto him: My Lord and my God.” My Lord and My God – Hebrew: adoni alei, Aramaic: dari alahi. Idiomatic expression of endearment – My dearest. The passage in John 20:27-29 does not say that Thomas did touch the nail prints
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: John 3:3: “Jesus answered and said unto him, verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” As a small child in Christian Service Brigade I memorized this passage of Scripture to earn my merit badge
WORD STUDY – YEA (YES) Matthew 5:37: “But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay nay for whatsoever is more than these comes of evil.” Yes – Aramaic: ‘iy, Yes. When I read the Aramaic I transliterate it from the Aramaic Script to the Hebrew Script to make it easier to for me to read
WORD STUDY – TO SEE Matthew 5:8: “Blessed are those who are pure in heart for they shall see God.” To See: Aramaic – nihzon: experience, to see beyond normal perception. To see colors of emotions. God has no body and is invisible, so how can we “see Him.” “Seeing God” is a Hebrew idiom
{WORD STUDY} – POOR (IN SPIRIT) Matthew 5:3: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Poor – Greek: ptochos from the root ptoeo or pipto – a beggar, one who is destitute, a pauper, Spiritually poor, humble, devout. Aramaic – Miskaneh: Aramaic idiom for one who voluntarily gives up
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: 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
WORD STUDY – CUP Psalms 16:5 “The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup, thou maintains my lot.” Psalms 23: 5b “Thou anoints my head with oil, my cup runneth over.” Cup – Hebrew: kavas – cup, pelican or stork The word “cup” in Hebrew is “kavas,” which has a double meaning,
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Daniel 6:3: “Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes because an excellent spirit was in him and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.” Someone who reads these devotionals asked about this verse and what it meant to have an
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Numbers 14:21: “But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.” “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.” – Romeo Montague, Romeo and Juliet Act II,
