Word Study: Good Thing- Tov

WORD STUDY – GOOD THING – TOV טוב Proverbs 18:22: “Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.” Practically every modern translation joins in lock step with the KJV and says that finding a wife is finding a good thing. This is...

Word Study: Show Himself Friendly

WORD STUDY – SHOW HIMSELF FRIENDLY  LEHITERO’A’A  להתרע Proverbs 18:24: “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” The KJV of this verse never made sense. The two phrases just did not seem to fit....

Word Study: Book Of Lives

WORD STUDY – BOOK OF LIVES  SOFAR CHAIM  ספרחימ Psalms 69:28: “Let them be blotted out of the book of the life, and not be written with the righteous.” In Hebrew the words for Book of life is sofar chaim. Chaim is a word we recognize as life but this is written in a...

Word Study:Eat

WORD STUDY – EAT :  ‘AKAL אכל John 6:54: “Whosoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood will have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” The word in Aramaic that Jesus spoke for the word eat was ‘akal. There are two possible root words, ‘alakam which...

Word Study: Weary

WORD STUDY – WEARY : APHAH עפיה Jeremiah 31:25: “I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.” God will refresh the weary? Big deal. I get home from work I am weary. I love that feeling of weariness after a hard day of work and I love those little rituals, having...