HEBREW WORD STUDY – INVESTMENT

HEBREW WORD STUDY – INVESTMENT – LAVAH לוה   Lamed Vav Hei Isa 56:6-7  “Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – OVERWHELMED

HEBREW WORD STUDY – OVERWHELMED – BA’ATROPH בעטף  Beth Ayin Teth Final Pei Psalm 61:2: “From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.” I read in the Sefer HaMaamarim (Book of the Discourses) ...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – UNSALTED FISH

HEBREW WORD STUDY – UNSALTED FISH – TIPHELAH תפלה   Taw Pei Lamed Hei Jeremiah 23:13: “And I have seen the unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.” I grew up in a fundamentalist Baptist church which taught...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – CURSE

HEBREW WORD STUDY – CURSE – ‘ARUR ארור   Aleph Resh Vav Resh Jeremiah 17:5: “Thus saith the Lord, ‘Curse be the man that trust in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart turns away from God.”   Jeremiah lived at the same time as Nahum.  However, where Nahum dealt...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE LAME HORSE

HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE LAME HORSE – YAGUN יגון  Yod Gimmel Vav Final Nun Psalms 31:10,  “For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.” David is saying that his life is filled with...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – HEWN STONE

HEBREW WORD STUDY – HEWN STONE – GAZIT גזית   Gimmel Zayin Yod Taw  Isaiah 9:10: “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stone, the sycamores are cut down but we will change them into cedars.” After 9-11 the House Minority Leader Tom Daschle,...