Hebrew Word Study – A Quiet Place - Qadesh  קְדְּשֵׁ    Qop Daleth Shin Psalms 73:17: “Until I went into the sanctuary of God. Then I understood their end.”Asaph was a close friend of King David and collaborated with him on much of his poetry and music.  Asaph was...

Hebrew Word Study – Search – Dresh – דִּרְשׁ֥ Daleth Resh Shin Isaiah 55:6: Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.”If you are a Baptist, you most likely grew up with this verse. An invitation for salvation would not be complete without...

Hebrew Word Study – Inside – tavek – תָּוֶךְ Taw Beth Kap  Exodus 25:8: “And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.Tomorrow, in our Torah study online class on Zoom, we will address an interesting question. This is a question asked by Rabbi...

Hebrew Word Study – Search – Dresh – דִּרְשׁ֥ Daleth Resh Shin Isaiah 55:6: Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.”If you are a Baptist, you most likely grew up with this verse. An invitation for salvation would not be complete without...

Hebrew Word Study – Presence – Pani פְנֵ֖י Pei Nun Yod Jonah 1:3 “But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.”  KJV Jonah 1:3: “But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish.”  NIVI remember as a six year old sitting in Sunday...

Aramaic Word Study – Lawyer – Saphra  סָפרֵא      Samek Pei Resh Aleph Luke 11:52: “Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and they that were entering in ye hindered.” Some translations say: “Woe to you...

Hebrew Word Study – Ignore – Shakach – שְׁכָּחֵ֣ – Shin Kap Chet Psalms 13:1  “How long Oh Lord will thou forget me forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?”We added two brand-new buses to our disability bus fleet.  I asked one of the lucky drivers who was...

Hebrew Word Study – Ownership – Ba’al  בַּ֖עַל  Beth Ayin Lamed  I Kings 18:28, “And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.”This classic story pits God Jehovah against the god Baal...

Hebrew Word Study: Have turned: cabab- סָבַב 1Kings 18:37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. I call this the Elijah prayer and use it as a model when I cry out to God...

Hebrew Word Study – A New Song – Sir Chadash שיר חדש Shin Yod Resh   Cheth Daleth Shin Psalms 96:1 “O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.”In 1910 Luther B. Bridgers was an evangelist serving God in the Southern States of America by...