WORD STUDY – YASHAN – ישׁנ

Psalms 121:4: “Behold, he that keepth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.” “Sometimes exhausted with toil and endeavor, I wish I could sleep forever and ever; But then this reflection My longing allays I shall be doing it One of these days” Piet Hein   The word...

WORD STUDY – PEACE AND TRUTH

  Isaiah 39:8:  “Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.”   II Chronicles 32:26: “However, Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart, both he and the...

BEYOND THE DALETH – PUT – נתנ

Nehemiah 7:5: “Then my God  put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogies.” I was reading the various commentaries on this passage and it seems all of them pretty much said the same thing and that was that...

BEYOND THE DALETH – WORM – תולע

Malachi  3:6: “For I am the Lord, I change not.” It seemed like a couple years ago I was on a roll.  God seemed to be answering practically every prayer I prayed.  I even joked to some people that I seemed to have hit a vein of gold and to give me your prayer request...

BEYOND THE DALETH – INIQUITY – עוה

Psalms 25:11: “For thy name sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity for it is great.” Why do you think David is using the word iniquity rather than sin?  Are not iniquity and sin the same thing?  Maybe in English we think they are the same but in Hebrew there is a real...