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 – 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 – SIN Job 1:22: “In all this Job sinned not, nor charge God foolishly.” Sin: Hebrew – chata: To stumble or fall short of the mark We tend to think that Job did not sin by not blaming God. Yet, when you look at the syntax in the Hebrew, it is clearly indicating
WORD STUDY – CURSE Jeremiah 17:5: “Thus said the Lord; ‘Curse be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm whose heart, departeth from the Lord.” Curse – Hebrew: ‘aror – Curse, to remove the influence of God. Thank goodness this verse was written in Hebrew and not English. Just because some
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Nehemiah 7:5: “Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogies.” I was reading the various commentaries on this passage and it seems all of them pretty much said the same thing and
WORD STUDY – YHWH YHWH – Hebrew: God Jehovah The word YHWH expressing the name of God in Hebrew is built on three words; hayah which means “was,” hoveh which means “is” and yiheyeh which means “will be.” This is to say that God lives in the past, present and future simultaneously. Albert Einstein, a
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Job 12:22: “He discovereth deep things out of the darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.” My study partner has a friend who related a dream to us. In this dream she found she was in the ocean and was sinking down to
Word Study – Discouragement Numbers 32:9 “They discouraged the heart of the children of Israel” Discouragement – Hebrew “Nu'” Nu’ –frustration, hindrance, restraining, prohibit, refuse, discouragement. This word has its roots in the idea of not getting something you want. When we do not get what we want we get discouraged. Israel became discouraged not
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim:’ Proverbs 30:5: “Every word of God is pure, He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him.” I am often asked what the “literal” translation of a verse would be. What I am being asked is what the direct word for word translation
