WORD STUDY – YESER’ (IMAGINATION)

Genesis 32:7: “And Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed:”   This verse almost appears repetitious.  He was afraid and distressed.  Does not being afraid and distressed mean the same thing?  (For the sake of my Hebrew class the word for afraid is not one of...

WORD STUDY – NETSACH AND SHACHAN

Psalms 13:1: “ How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? forever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?”   Practically every modern English translation will render the word teshekacheni as forget me and the word netsach as forever.  Yet, in my spirit I find this...

WORD STUDY – ASHAH (MAKE)

WORD STUDY – ASHAH (MAKE)   Genesis 6:5-6; And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it...

WORD STUDY – BLESSING OTHERS

Genesis 12:2-3: “And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.  And I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee.”   I have heard many Christians who firmly insist that...

WORD STUDY – LA CHAIM (TO LIFE)

Genesis 2:7: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”   Remember the song from Fiddler on The Roof?  LaChaim.  (la – to, chaim – life).  What were they celebrating?  ...

WORD STUDY – ADAM

Genesis 5:2: “He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day they were created.”   “A human being is only called Adam when male and female are as one.”  Zohar 1:55b.   It is very interesting to note that in his...