Hebrew Word Study – Discouraged - Qatzor Nephesh – קָצַר נֶֽפֶשׁ  Qop Sade Resh   Nun Pei Shin Numbers 21:4: “Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the...

Hebrew Word Study – A Watch Tower – Bachan – בָּחן  Beth Cheth Nun Psalms 17:3 “Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night.”   The above passage was taken from the KJV.  It translates the phrase “thou hast visited me in the night as  the past...

Hebrew Word Study – Asaph -  A (Song) Collector  -   אָ֫סָ֥ף  Aleph Samek Pei  Psalm 79:1, “A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.”The word we render as Psalm in...

Hebrew Word Study – Glory Has Departed – Ichabod –  אִֽי־ כָבוֹד֙ Aleph Yod  Kap Beth Vav Daleth Numbers 20:29: “And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.” Numbers 21:1: “The king of Arad,...

Aramaic Word Study  Key – Qalid - קלידֵ   – Qop Lamed Yod Daleth  Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.I had always found it strange that Jesus always...

Hebrew Word Study – Venom – Chamah - חֵמָה  – Cheth Mem Hei, ,    Leviticus 26:28:  “Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.” KJV Leviticus 26:28:  “I will act with furious rage against you, and I...

Aramaic Word Study – Innocent or Wounded Lamb  – Tela  טלָא   - Teth Lamed Aleph Matthew 18:3:  “And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (4) Whosoever therefore shall humble...

Hebrew Word Study – Shadows  – Tzalemat - צַלְמָ֡וֶת  - Sade Lamed Mem Vav Taw Psalms 23:4b: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death” In the Hebrew Bible the word death is not directly in this sentence. Yet, in a way. Translators however...

Aramaic Word Study  Key – Qalid - קלידֵ   – Qop Lamed Yod Daleth  Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.I had always found it strange that Jesus always...

Aramaic Word Study – Just Between You and God  –  ארָזָא  ‘Araza – Aleph Resh Zayin Aleph  I Timothy 3:9: “Holding the mysteries of the faith in pure conscience.”  It seems like every Bible student, pastor and teacher has chimed in on this verse with their idea...