Hebrew Word Study: Tabernacle/Cloud

WORD STUDY – TABERNACLE/CLOUD SUKAH  סכה   Isaiah 4:6: “And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.” The word tabernacle here is sukah. It is the root word for sukkoth...

Hebrew Word Study: A Consuming Fire

HEBREW WORD STUDY – A CONSUMING FIRE – KAESH כאשׁ Jeremiah 20:9: “Then I said, I will not make mention of him nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire and shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forebearing and I could not stay.”...

Hebrew Word Study: Like His Heart

HEBREW WORD STUDY – LIKE HIS HEART כלבבו Kalavavu I Samuel 13:14: “But now thy kingdom shall not continue; the Lord has sought him a man after his own heart.” Most translators walk in lock step with the KJV and say a man after God’s heart. Some will say according to...

Hebrew Word Study: An Abusive Husband

  WORD STUDY – AN ABUSIVE HUSBAND – BAALI בעלי “Hosea 2:16: And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord that You shall me Ishi (my husband) and shall call me no more Baali (my master).” At this point in the relationship between Hosea and his wife, she is calling...

Hebrew Word Study: Engulf And Destroy

HEBREW WORD STUDY – ENGULF AND DESTROY – BALA בלא Exodus 7:12: “For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.” Archeologists have discovered that the cobra played a vital role in Ancient Egypt....

HEBREW WORD STUDY – BELOVED – ABBA אבא Matthew 6:9: “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” It has been very much ingrained in our Western culture that God is a Father, ie., a male father figure. This is not so in...