• Psalms 147:1, “Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.”   As one linguist once said, “Every English translation of the Bible is at best a paraphrase.” This is why you have so many different versions, none are mistranslations, just a

  • Continuing in Psalm 119 with the letter ‘Gimel‘ ג.  Psalm 119:17  Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. The words deal bountifully is the Hebrew word ‘gamal’ גמל and is same root word for the spelling of the  letter ג  itself.  It has the idea of being nourished until completely ripe as in grapes or other fruit.