HEBREW WORD STUDY – LIKE A DREAM 

HEBREW WORD STUDY – LIKE A DREAM  Psalms 126:1: “A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.” Last night I had trouble sleeping.  I must have woke up four times during the night.  Each time I awoke I saw Psalms...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – BROKEN BONES

HEBREW WORD STUDY – BROKEN BONES – SHEVAR  ‘ATSEM   שׁבר. עצמ   Lamentations 3:4 “My flesh and my skin hath he made old, he hath broken my bones.” “Why not? They are the only ones who can take it.”  C.S. Lewis when asked why the righteous suffer. Tradition ascribes...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – WATERMELON

HEBREW WORD STUDY – WATERMELON –  BATACH  בטח   Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understandings. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths.” I ran across something in ancient rabbinical teaching and...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD INHABITS

HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD INHABITS    YASHAV  ‘EL  ישׁב. אל   Psalms 22:3 “But thou art holy,  O thou that inhabits the praises of Israel.”  KJV Psalms 22:3 “You are enthroned as the Holy one, you are the praise of Israel.” NIV Psalms 22:3: “But thou dwellest  in the...

HEBREW  WORD STUDY – PROMPT

HEBREW  WORD STUDY – PROMPT – NADAV  נדב  Nun Daleth Beth Exodus 25:1-2:  “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart prompts him, you shall take My offering.’” Why did God want...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – NARROW

HEBREW WORD STUDY – NARROW –  TSAROTH  צרות   Psalms 25:17:  “The troubles of my heart are enlarged: [O] bring thou me out of my distresses” “When sorrows come they come not single spies but in battalions”  Claudius in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet Act IV Scene V...