Word Study: Like What You Are קמר

WORD STUDY – LIKE WHAT YOU ARE  קמר Leviticus 19:18: “But thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Mark 12:31: “And the second is like this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” “Good shepherd, tell this youth what tis to love? It is to be all made of sighs and...

Word Study: The Sun שׁמשׁ

  WORD STUDY – THE SUN – שׁמשׁ Psalms 84:11 “For the Lord God is a sun and a shield, the Lord gives grace and glory. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.” Sometimes we forget that when we read the Psalms we are reading poetry. This is...

Word Study: Engraved and Free

WORD STUDY – ENGRAVE AND FREE – חרת Exodus 32:16: “And the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables.” “Had the first tablets not been broken, no nation or people could have subjugated the Jewish people, as it is...

Word Study: The Illuminator and Verifier

WORD STUDY – THE ILLUMINATOR AND VERIFIER – התמימה אמימ Exodus 28:30: “ And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim;” Exodus 28 goes into great detail about the garment worn by the high priest. Of course today Jesus is our high...

Word Study: If Good Be Unto You

  WORD STUDY – IF GOOD UNTO YOU נ I Chronicles 13:2: “ And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If [it seem] good unto you, and [that it be] of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren everywhere, [that are] left in all the land of...

Word Study: Revive Us תחינו

WORD STUDY – REVIVE US – תחינו Psalms 85:6: “Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?” It is believed by many Biblical scholars that this Psalm was written about five hundred years before Jesus was born. This would be post exilic, that is it...