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WORD STUDY – I LIFT UP MY SOUL – נפשׁי אשׁא
Ps 25:1 . [A Psalm] of David. Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. This Psalm starts off very curious. The words a Psalm are not found in the Hebrew text. It simply starts off lidavid or to David or unto David. Translators are not sure what to do with...
WORD STUDY – MAN LAYING WITH A MEMORY – אישׁ ישׁכב אתזכר
Leviticus 20:13: “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.” As I research my book, A Hebrew Teacher Explores the Heart...
WORD STUDY – KNOWING GOD’S THOUGHTS
Psalms 139:17 “How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God, how great is the sum of them.” Today I was researching my book A Hebrew Teachers Explores God’s Heart in the Marriage Relationship.Listening to a story of a relationship where one’s love was...
WORD STUDY – RIGHT WAY – דרכ ישׁר
Proverbs 16:25: “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.” There are probably two things we dread the most when driving our disability buses, school traffic and snow. Fortunately both do not occur...
WORD STUDY – TAKING THE KINGDOM BY FORCE – מלכותא שׁמיא הטירא (Aramaic)
Matthew 11:12: “And from the days of John the Baptist until the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” Micah 2:12-13: “I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put...
WORD STUDY – BOOK OF LIFE – מספר חיימ
Luke 10:20: “Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.” Psalms 69:28: “Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.” The Book...
HEBRAIC STUDY – MAKE ME A BLESSING
Haggai 1:6: “You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourself but there is none warm; and he that earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.” ...
WORD STUDY – HE DRANK WINE – ישׁת מנ היינ
Genesis 9:21: “And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered in his tent.” There is a favorite question that Sunday School teachers try to avoid but there is always some smart alec who will ask: “If Noah was so holy and such a great man...
WORD STUDY – THE ELECTRICITY OF GOD – חשׁמל
Ezekiel: 1:4: “I looked, and lo, a stormy wind came sweeping out of the north, a huge cloud and flashing fire, surrounded by radiance; and in the center of it, in the center of the fire, a gleam of amber. The word Ezekiel chose for gleam of amber is chashmal. ...
Word Study – A Quiet Place – מקדשׁי
Psalms 73:17: “Until I went into the sanctuary of God. Then understood I their end.” Asaph was a close friend of King David and collaborated with him on much of his poetry and music. Asaph was also a seer. The Bible does show a difference between a...


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