HEBREW WORD STUDY – SPARE THE ROD

HEBREW WORD STUDY – SPARE THE ROD – TIMENAI  SHAVAT  תושׁכ שׁבט  Proverbs 13:24: “He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.” Proverbs 23:13:  “Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – I KNOW MY REDEEMER LIVES

HEBREW WORD STUDY – I KNOW MY REDEEMER LIVES   Ani Yodahthi Go’ali  Chi    אני ידעתי גאלי חי   Job 19:25 For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth: Alice was a grandmotherly elderly woman who hails from South...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – CRUEL, WRATH, ANGER

HEBREW WORD STUDY – CRUEL, WRATH, ANGER – ANEPH  CHARAH  KAZAR  אנפ  כרה    כזר    Isaiah 13:9:  “Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.” It is so...

HEBREW WORD STUDY:  THE THIRD WARRIOR

HEBREW WORD STUDY:  THE THIRD WARRIOR –  SHALESHIM  שׁלשׁימ   I Samuel 4:7 “And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp and they said: Woe unto us! For there hath not been such a thing heretofore.” I find this verse very remarkable in...

WORD STUDY – AN EVIL SPIRIT

WORD STUDY – AN EVIL SPIRIT – RAUCH RA’AH רוח רעה   I Samuel 18:10: “And it came to pass on the morrow that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house.” “There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – FORTIFIED

HEBREW WORD STUDY – FORTIFIED – TSUR צ ור  Psalm 139:5: “Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.” I suppose you could translate this verse in a number of ways. What I find interesting in this verse is the word for beset which is tsur.  As a...