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Word Study: IRRITANTS שׁנאיאיבי
WORD STUDY – IRRITANTS SONEI OYEV שׁנאיאיבי Numbers 10:35: “And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said: Rise up Lord and let your enemies be scattered and let them that hate you flee before you.” Those who will flee from the presence of God are his...
Word Study: Peter ( Aramaic) כפא
WORD STUDY – PETER (ARAMAIC) – CEPHAS כפא John 1:42 “And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be (Aramaic uses a pefect tense – are) called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.” Peter’s given...
Word Study: Good Thing- Tov
WORD STUDY – GOOD THING – TOV טוב Proverbs 18:22: “Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.” Practically every modern translation joins in lock step with the KJV and says that finding a wife is finding a good thing. This is...
Word Study: Show Himself Friendly
WORD STUDY – SHOW HIMSELF FRIENDLY LEHITERO’A’A להתרע Proverbs 18:24: “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” The KJV of this verse never made sense. The two phrases just did not seem to fit....
Word Study: Book Of Lives
WORD STUDY – BOOK OF LIVES SOFAR CHAIM ספרחימ Psalms 69:28: “Let them be blotted out of the book of the life, and not be written with the righteous.” In Hebrew the words for Book of life is sofar chaim. Chaim is a word we recognize as life but this is written in a...
Word Study:Eat
WORD STUDY – EAT : ‘AKAL אכל John 6:54: “Whosoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood will have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” The word in Aramaic that Jesus spoke for the word eat was ‘akal. There are two possible root words, ‘alakam which...
Word Study: Weary
WORD STUDY – WEARY : APHAH עפיה Jeremiah 31:25: “I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.” God will refresh the weary? Big deal. I get home from work I am weary. I love that feeling of weariness after a hard day of work and I love those little rituals, having...
Word Study: Mighty Ones- Beni ‘elim
WORD STUDY – MIGHTY ONES Beni ‘elim Psalms 29:1: “Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.” Who are these mighty ones who are to give strength to the Lord? There is much debate and some modern translations like the NIV will just...
Word Study:Palsy ( Aramaic) שׁרא
WORD STUDY – PALSY – (ARAMAIC) שׁרא SHERA’ Matthew 8:6-9: “And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.” Palsy in Aramaic is shera’ which means to be taken. It is the word used when a Jewish man declares that he has taken a...
Word Study : The Letter Hei ה
WORD STUDY – THE LETTER HEI ה Matthew 7:13: “Enter ye at the strait gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat.” Rabbis in the time of Jesus would often illustrate spiritual truths using Hebrew...
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