Word Study: Invincible עוז

WORD STUDY – INVINCIBLE  עוז Psalms 29:11: “The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.” For thousands of years every Jewish child would begin studying Biblical Hebrew at the age of three. The idea was not to prepare them...

Word Study:The Pitts הבורימ

  WORD STUDY – THE PITS – ~הבורימ Psalm 143:7: “Hear me speedily, O’Lord: my spirit failed: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.” I picked up a Look Magazine from 1957 the other day. I read about a group of teenage...

Word Study: Jehovah Jireh

ן WORD STUDY – JEHOVAH JIREH Genesis 22:8,14: (8) “And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. (14) And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the...

Word Study: Men Of War

WORD STUDY – MEN OF WAR Joshua 5:6: “For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he...

Happy Purim

I love word plays, which are often hidden in the English translations but found everywhere in the Hebrew. Word plays are a literary device used used to give greater insight into the intention behind the Author’s words and can also be used for emphasis. A common...

    WORD STUDY – BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.” “Knowledge is power.” Sir Francis Bacon The name of the High School I attended was Steinmetz. It was...