Hebrew Word Study – Lev Tahor : Lamed Bet  Tech Hei Resh לב טהר Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Tomorrow in our Torah Study and continued on Monday in our weekly Hebrew/Aramaic Bible Study and Discussion our major...

Hebrew Word Study – Even – Aph – אַף  Aleph Pei  Psalms 108:1: “O God, my heart is fixed, I will sing and give praise even with my glory.” Ever have one of those times when you carry a burden that just so overwhelms you that you can’t even pray.  You try to pray, but...

Hebrew Word Study – Crown – Nezer – נֵ֔זֶר  Nun Zayin Resh Zechariah 9:16: “And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.”  I have read reports of...

Hebrew Word Study – Cling – Deveq – דְבָּ֔ק Daleth Beth Qop Deuteronomy 10:20: “You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name.”I would like to focus on just one word in this verse.  It is the word “cling.”   In...

Hebrew Word Study- Sign: Owth אוֹת Judges 7:10-11 But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant, And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah...

Hebrew Word Study – Hardens The Neck – Maqesheh ‘Oreph – מַקְשֶׁה־ עֹ֑רֶף  Mem Qop Shin Hei      Ayin Resh Pei  Proverbs 29:1: He that being often rebuked hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy.The words hardens his neck are the same...

Hebrew Word Study – Banquet – Shatan – שָׁתָה  Shin Taw Nun Esther 5:4, “And Esther answered, If it seems good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.”I have my PhD in Biblical Archaeology and I have spent...

Hebrew Word Study – Grow, Grow and Grow - Yalak Haloke Gadol  -  יֵּ֥לֶךְ הָל֣וֹךְ גָד֑וֹל  Yod Lamed Kap   Hei Lamed Vav Kap Gimmel Daleth Vav Lamed II Samuel 5:10 “And David went on and grew great and the Lord of host was with him.”Obviously, the first thing you...

Hebrew Word Study – Unto Us – Elinu – אֵלֵ֣ינוּ  Alpeh Lamed Yod Nun Vav I Samuel 4:3: “And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us today before the Philistines?  Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of...