WORD STUDY: Spiritual Watch I Samuel 18:9: “And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.” Eyed: “avan oyan” Allow you spiritual eyes to inhabit the behavior of another, to watch someone to discover spiritual secrets. Many translations of I Samuel 18:9 renders this as Saul casting a “jealous” eye on David. This is based
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 – 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 Hayomin: II Kings 2:13: “He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan.” I have always been fascinated by the concept of passing a mantle. Now that I read this passage I discover
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
WORD STUDY – FULFILL FULFILL – Hebrew: gala – to make complete, to fill up to completion Psalms 20:5: “The Lord fulfill all your petitions.” The word “gala” (fulfill) raises an issue that no one seems to question. “gala” does not mean to answer, or to grant. It means to make compete, to fill up
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Joel 3:5: “Because you have taken my silver and my gold and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.” This is very odd indeed. The prophet is speaking of the time of King Jehoram and of course the time of the prophet himself, who
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: 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,
I Samuel 17:49: “And David put his hand into his bag, and took thence a stone and slang (it) and smote the Philistine in his forehead that the stone sunk into his forehead and he fell upon his face to the earth.” Original Hebrew had no vowels. The vav was sometimes used for “u” and
