WORD STUDY – OPEN MY EYES גלעיני

Psalms 119:18: “Open my eyes that I may behold wonderful things from your law.”   The word used in this verse for law is Torah.  During David’s time this was a reference to the first five books of the Bible which we call the Pentateuch. Today when the word Torah...

WORD STUDY – A WICKED PERSON RASA’ רשׁע

    Psalms 112:9-10: “He hath given freely to the poor; His mercies endures forever; His horn will be exalted in honor.  The wicked will see it and be vexed; he will gnash his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.”   There is an old...

WORD STUDY – GEHANA’ גהנא

  Matthew 5:29,  “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.”   I remember hearing this verse read as a...

WORD STUDY – THE CHOICEST WINE – רחק

Isaiah 29:13,  “Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me…”   I once taught drama in a high school and I would always tell my acting students that...