HEBREW WORD STUDY – WANDER

by | Jun 7, 2018 | Devotionals

HEBREW WORD STUDY – WANDER – HALAKA  הלכ   Ecclesiastes 6:9: “Better is the sight of eyes than the wandering of the desire, this is also vanity and the vexation of the spirit.” One of the stories from Geoffrey Chaucer’ s “Canterbury Tales”  is entitled “The Pardoner’s...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – VIOLENCE

by | Jun 6, 2018 | Devotionals

HEBREW WORD STUDY – VIOLENCE – CHAMAN – חמנ  Habakkuk 1:2: “O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! Even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!” The word for violence in Hebrew is chaman which has extremely broad usages. This is a...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – FLOWER

by | Jun 5, 2018 | Devotionals

HEBREW WORD STUDY – FLOWER – TSITS – ציצ    Psalms 103:15-17: “As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the LORD [is]...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – INWARD

by | Jun 4, 2018 | Devotionals

HEBREW WORD STUDY – INWARD – LBAYITH  ל,בית    Exodus 25:20: “And the cherubims shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – VANITY

by | Jun 3, 2018 | Devotionals

HEBREW WORD STUDY – VANITY – HACAL הבל  “Job 27:12: “Behold, all of you yourselves have seen (it), why then are you altogether vain?” “If the judge should say to the man, ‘Take the splinter from between your eye.’  He would reply: ‘Take the  beam from your between...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – COME NEAR

by | Jun 1, 2018 | Devotionals

HEBREW WORD STUDY – COME NEAR – NAGASH  נגשׁ   Genesis 44:18: “Then Judah came near unto him, and said, ‘Oh, my Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my Lord’s ears…’” The word for “come near” is nagash. This word means to draw near, but to draw near...