Word Study – Hand

Exodus 17:11: “And it came to pass when Moses held up his hand that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.” Some have suggested that Moses holding his hand up was sort of like a battle flag.  In the heat of battle, you are not sure whether...

Word Study – Worry

  Exodus 17:3:  “But the people thirsted there for water and they grumbled (worried) against Moses and said: Why, now, have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” Matthew 6:25-26 “Do not worry about your life,...

Word Study – Murmur (Beyond the Daleth)

  Exodus 16:7: “And in the morning, then you shall see the glory of the Lord; for he that hears the murmurings against the Lord and what are we that you murmur against us?” “You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because the thorns have...

Word Study – Perfume

  Exodus 30:37-38: “And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.  Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall be cut off from his...

Word Study – First Fruit

Exodus 23:19:  “The first of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God, Thou shalt not seethe a yearling in his mother’s milk.”     The word fruit is thrown around a lot.  “By their fruits you shall known them…”  We...

Word Study – Cephas-Stone

  John 1:42  “And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be(Aramaic uses a pefect tense – are) called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.”   Years ago I worked in a mailroom and one of my...