Happy Purim

I love word plays, which are often hidden in the English translations but found everywhere in the Hebrew. Word plays are a literary device used used to give greater insight into the intention behind the Author’s words and can also be used for emphasis. A common...

WORD STUDY – SICKNESS – חלה

Psalms 77:10: “And this is my sickness, the years of thy right hand of the most high.”   This is a Psalm written by Asaph.  From prior texts we learn he is the chief musician.  We really don’t know much more than that except that in Psalms 77 he was very...

WORD STUDY – IN WHAT MANNER – מה עשׁה

WORD STUDY – IN WHAT MANNER – מה עשׁה     II Kings 4:2: “And Elisha said unto her: ‘What shall I do for you?  Tell me.  What has thou in the house?’ And she said: ‘Your handmaid has nothing in the house, save a pot of oil.’   Prophets in the Old Testament did...

WORD STUDY: PRECIOUS PRIZE מירא

  Exodus 17:3: “But the people thirsted there for water and they grumbled against Moses and said: Why, now, have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” Matthew 6:25-26 “Do not worry about your life, what you will...

ף Psalm 14:3: “They are all gone aside, they are altogether become filthy, there is none that doeth good, no not one.” I remember in Bible College I had a class on “How To Study the Bible.” Our instructor told us that we should read the Bible like we read a love...