Hebrew Word Study - Distance Yourself - Rachaq.  Resh Cheth Qop    Exodus 23:7: “Distance yourself from words of falsehood, do not kill and innocent or righteous man.”In our Torah Study this week on Saturday we will be addressing the story of Rachab of Jericho and her...

Hebrew Word Study – Exciting the Senses  –  יָפֶ֣ה  Yapah – Yod Pei Hei Ecclesiastes 3:11: “He has made everything beautiful in its time.”I used to be a chaplain in a nursing home and every Sunday I would hold a service where I would play the keyboard and we would...

Aramaic Word Study – Sufficient – Sephaq – סָפֵק  Samek Pei Qop Matthew  6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.“Worrying is like paying on a debt that...

Hebrew Word Study – Wild Beast of the Desert – Tsiyim  צִיִּ֔ים  Sade Yod Yod Mem  Isaiah 13:21-22: “But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. The...

Hebrew Word Study – Lion, Ox and Eagle – אֲרִי שׁ֥וֹר נֶ֖שֶׁר  Ari, Shor, Nesher   Aleph Resh Yod,   Shine Vav Resh    Nun Shin Resh  Ezekiel 1:10,13: “As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man; each of the four had the face of a lion on the right...

Hebrew Word Study – A Pledge  -  Ha’erabon  הָֽעֵרָבוֹן֮ Hei Ayin Resh Beth Vav Nun Genesis 38:18:  “And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thine hand. And he gave [it] her, and came in unto...

Hebrew Word Study – All His Heart – Kal Levo   כָּל־ לִבּוֹ֒ Kap Lamed   Lamed Beth Vav  Judges 16:18: “And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, come up at this once for he has shown me all...

Hebrew Word Study – If You Are In Agreement -  אִם־ עֲלֵיכֶ֨ם ט֜וֹב  Aleph Mem   Ayin Lamed Yod Kap Mem    Teth Vav Beth I Chronicles 13:2: “ And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If [it seem] good unto you, and [that it be] of the LORD our God, let us...

Hebrew Word Study – Break – Shavar – שִׁבַּ֖ר  Shin Beth Resh  Lamentations 3:4 “My flesh and my skin hath he made old, he hath broken my bones.”“Why not? They are the only ones who can take it.”  C.S. Lewis when asked why the righteous suffer. Tradition ascribes the...

Aramaic Word Study – The Power – Chula – חַילָא Cheth Yod Lamed Aleph Luke 9:1: “Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.” Judges 14:6: “And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him,...