• HEBREW WORD STUDY – TEST, BANNER, MIRACLE – NASAH נסה  Nun Samek Hei Genesis 22:1:  “And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, [here] I [am].” All the English translations I checked (24 of them) say God tested Abraham. One says

  •    Exodus 5:2: “And Pharaoh said, Who [is] the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.”   Exodus 7:9: “When Pharaoh says to you: ‘Prove yourself by working a miracle.’   One of the most difficult barriers I have to

  • Exodus 7:9: “When Pharaoh says to you: ‘Prove yourself by working a miracle.’ It is interesting to note that the word for prove here is not nacah which is your standard Hebrew word for prove.  Instead the writer uses an interesting word which is nathan. This was one of the easiest vocabulary words to remember

  • Isaiah 7:11-12: “Ask thee a sign of the Lord, thy God, ask it either in the depth or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask neither will I tempt the Lord.”   Luke 12:48: “To whom much is given, much is expected.”   Generally, we will not escape this holiday season

  • Exodus 7:9: “When Pharaoh says to you: ‘Prove yourself by working a miracle.’ It is interesting to note that the word for prove here is not nacah which means to prove.  The writer is using the word Nathan.  This was another vocabulary word that I found easy to remember in my first year Hebrew class. I just thought of  Nathan Hale, “I have but

  • Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Isaiah 7:11-12: “Ask thee a sign of the Lord, thy God, ask it either in the depth or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask neither will I tempt the Lord.” Luke 12:24: “To whom much is given, much is expected.” Generally,

  • WORD STUDY – ZEBULON Isaiah 9:1 “Nevertheless her dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when  at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulon and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.” KJV