WORD STUDY – THE BROKEN LETTER HEI   ה I Corinthians 12:24: “And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.  After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying,...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE WEIGHT OF HIS LOVE – KABOD כבד   Kap Beth Daleth Psalms 3:3 “But thou O’Lord art a shield to me, the glory and the lifter of my heard.” This Psalm was written in probably the worst moment of David’s life.  His beloved son, whom David named...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – HOSANNA – HOSHI’AH  השיעה  Hei Shin Yod Ayin Hei Matthew 21:9: “And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.” Psalm...

ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – LAWYERS – SAPHRA ספרא   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 them that were entering in ye hindered.” Some translations say: “Woe to you experts in...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – HOPE – BATACH - בטח  Beth Teth Cheth Ecclesiastes 9:4: “For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.” “…how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – FINS AND SCALES – SENAPPIR & QASEQESETH  קשקשת  סנפיר  Leviticus 11:9: “These shall ye eat of all that [are] in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.” I wonder, do any...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – AN ALTAR – ZABACH – מזבח  Mem Zayin Beth Cheth Leviticus 6:2,5-6: “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This [is] the law of the burnt offering: It [is] the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the...