Aramaic Word Study – Be Open – Ethpathach   אֵתפַּתַּח    Aleph Taw Pei Taw Cheth Mark 7:34: “And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.”It is curious that if the New Testament was written in Greek, why do we have so many...

Aramaic Word Study – Ambassador -  Izagada’ איזגדא  Aleph Yod Zayin Gimmel Daleth Aleph II Corinthians 5:20: “So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”  New Living BibleAs I write this...

Hebrew Word Study - God is Good  - Tov YHWH - Teth Vav Beth. Yod Hei Vav Hei    Psalms 25:8: “Good and upright is Lord, therefore He will teach us His way.”Because God is a good God He will teach sinners in the way? I guess that makes sense, but what makes more sense...

Hebrew Word Study – Old – זָ֫קַ֥נְ  Zayin Qop Nun Psalms 37:25: “I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”This morning my first passenger on my disability bus was a blind man who was Jewish and in the...

Hebrew Word Study – Behold, It Is I – Haneni – הִנֵּֽנִי  Hei Nun Nun Yod Isaiah 52:6:  “Therefore my people shall know my name, Therefore they shall know in that day, that I am He that doth speak, behold it is I.”“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any...

Hebrew Word Study- Know My Thoughts – Da Sare’apay -  דַ֣ע שַׂרְעַפָּֽי  Daleth Ayin   Sine Resh Ayin Pei Yod   Psalms 139:23: “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: “In the joy of this new relationship I said to Jesus Christ. ‘Lord, I want...

Hebrew Word Study – Trouble - Tsarar   צָרַר    Tsade Resh Resh Psalms 119:143: “Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.” I Thessalonians 3:7: “Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress...

Hebrew Word Study – Plain Path  בְּאֹ֣רַח מִישׁ֑וֹר  Beth Aleph Resh Cheth    Mem Yod Shin Vav Resh Psalms 27:11: “Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.” I recall many years ago praying the following prayer: Oh Lord: I am...

Hebrew Word Study –  A Threefold Cord – Hachut Hameshulash - הַחוּט֙ הַֽמְשֻׁלָּ֔שׁ Hei Cheth Vav Teth    Hei Mem Shin Lamed Shin Ecclesiastes 4:12:  “And if one prevails against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”There is a...

Hebrew Word Study  – Leaning – Sha’an – שען   Shin Ayin Nun Proverbs 3:5: “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”   I believe I have spent almost a lifetime studying this verse and I am continually finding something...