HEBREW WORD STUDY – PEACE LIKE A RIVER – KANAHAR SHALOM כהנר שלום Kap Hei Nun Resh Shin Lamed Vav Mem Isaiah 48:18: “O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:” “When you put your hand in a
Isaiah 9:6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. A child is born and a son is given. This is a Hebraic
Psalms 120:2: “Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.” At first reading it appears that the writer is saying: “Lord make those gossiping about me shut up, punch ‘em in the mouth.” But upon closer examination, the writer is not saying that at all, he just wants his
Psalm 29:11: “The Lord will give strength to His people and the Lord will bless His people with peace.” In both cases where David says: The Lord he is using the name Jehovah (YHWH). When David uses the name Jehovah (YHWH) he is doing so to express his intimacy with God. In fact throughout
Jeremiah 23:23-24 “[Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.” This passage literally reads “I am a God that is from near.”
Obadiah 1:10 For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever. In my first year in Bible College the upper classmen put on a program for the new freshman. They had a sketch where a student played a reporter interviewing students impersonating the faculty. When
Isaiah 55:12: “For you shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you with singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” Summer and winter, springtime and harvest Sun moon and stars in their courses above Join
John 14:27, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” I have heard numerous sermons on this passage in my lifetime and they all seem to interpret this passage as Jesus
Isaiah 26:3: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trust in you.” If you are in the habit of claiming a verse for the New Year, might I suggest a great verse for 2014, it is Isaiah 26:3. Most of us on New Year’s Eve not
“For I know the plans (cashab) that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not evil, to give you an expected end.” Jeremiah 29:11 The word “plans” in Hebrew (cashab) has its origins in the idea of a weaver of fabric. Here we have a picture of Jesus thoughtfully and lovingly
