• HEBREW WORD STUDY – BREAD OF ADVERSITY – LECHEM TSAR לחם צר Lamed Cheth Mem Sade Resh Isaiah 30:20: “And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, your teachers be hidden no more, but thine eyes shall see they teachers:” Translators appear to have been very careful to

  • Exodus 23:25,  “And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.”   Yesterday I explained how the Hebrew pronoun you have both a singular and a plural form.  In Exodus 20:2 the pronoun your in your

  • Exodus 14:14: “The Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace.”   “If I see ten problems walking down the road toward me, I can be confident that nine will fall into a ditch before they reach me.”   President Calvin Coolidge   Yesterday I faced a problem that just sapped me of

  • Luke 11:9-10: And I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone asking receives and the one seeking finds; and the one knocking, it will be opened.   “That’s all I can stands, cause I can’t stands

  •   Exodus 16:15:  “And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] manna: for they wist not what it [was]. And Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.”   It is curious how a word makes its way into our

  •   Isaiah 30:20: “And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:”   The word give (nathan) is in an imperfect form and should be translated: “And even if the Lord will give

  • Continuing in Psalm 119 with the letter “dalet” ד which is shaped like a door or a man bent over in humility. Dalet is spelled דלת and has two possible root words. Some of its meanings are: door, gate, doors to heaven such as a portal, and also to be delivered from prison. Other possible usages are:

  • WORD STUDY:  BREAD TO EAT Genesis 28:20-21:  “And Jacob vowed a vowed and saying, If God will be with me and will keep in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on, so then I come to my father’s house in peace,  then shall the Lord