Word Study: Former Rains ירה

WORD STUDY – FORMER RAINS – ירה Jeremiah 5:24: “Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Few students who have...

Word Study: Cooing Dove הגה

WORD STUDY – COOING DOVE – הגה Psalms 90:9: “For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.” “For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’” John Greenleaf Whittier This sounds almost like...

Word Study: Joy In Unity of Fellowship גיל

WORD STUDY – JOY IN UNITY OF FELLOWSHIP – גיל Habakkuk 3:17-18 “Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall] fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold,...

Word Study: A Lifetime שׁנה

  WORD STUDY – A LIFETIME –שׁנה Psalm 90:4 “For a thousand years in thy sight [ are but]  as yesterday when it is past , and [as] a watch in the night” 2Peter 3:8 “But beloved be not ignorant of this one thing,that one day [is] with the Lord as...

Word Study: Leap Over A Wall אדלגשׁור

WORD STUDY – LEAP OVER A WALL – עך II Samuel 22:30: For by thee I have run through a troop; by my God have I leaped over a wall.” The Talmud instructs that we are never to lose the literal interpretation of a verse. Although Jewish tradition teaches that there are 70...

WORD STUDY – SON OF FRUITFULNESS

WORD STUDY – SON OF FRUITFULNESS   Genesis 49:1, 22:  “And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you [that] which shall befall you in days to come. (22) “Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a spring. His...