HEBREW WORD STUDY – NUCHA נוחא

Matthew 11:28-30, “Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.” I...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD LONGS TO SHARE HIS HEART

Psalms 23:2,6:  “ He makes me lie down in green pastures…Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”   Practically every English translation will translate that last phrase as I will dwell...

WORD STUDY – THE INVERTED NUN

Numbers 10:35-36: “Whenever the ark set out, Moses said: ‘Arise O’Lord let the enemy be scattered, may your foes flee before you.’   Whenever it came to rest, he said: ‘Return Lord to the countless thousands of Israel.’”   This passage is set off in the original...

WORD STUDY – REGA’- JUST A MOMENT

Isaiah 51:4: “I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.”   Yehudah ha-Levi, a medieval Jewish poet, displayed his emotion in a little rhyme: “ein rega beli nega.” “There is no rest without a wound in it.” The word rest (rega’)  is a very curious...