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HEBREW WORD STUDY – A NEW HEART
Ezekiel 18:31 “Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O House of Israel?” The word in Hebrew for cast is shalak which is found in a Hiphal (causative)...
BEYOND THE DALETH – THE SHADOW OF AYIN
Psalms 25:11: “For thy name sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity for it is great.” We tend to use the word iniquity interchangeable with the word sin. I mean are not sin and iniquity both the same. Actually, there is a real difference between iniquity and...
HEBREW WORD STUDY – RUNNING AWAY FROM GOD
Jonah 1:3 “But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.” KJV Jonah 1:3: “But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish.” NIV I remember as a six year old sitting in Sunday School in Beginner’s Church listening to my...
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE SECRET PLACE
Psalms 91:1 “He who dwells in the secret place of the most High, shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty.” Yesterday was December 7, the day we memorialize the Pearl Harbor attack and our entrance into World War II. I heard an interesting story of something...
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS
Psalm 57:1: “Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusted in thee; yea, in the shadow of the wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.” Hebrew is a language of poets and poetry expresses emotion. The Psalms...
HEBREW WORD STUDY – AN IMPORTANT HEBREW LESSON
Isaiah 30:20: “And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see them teachers:” There are no tenses in Hebrew, however we do have what is called...
HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD WEEPS
Deuteronomy 31:18: “And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.” There is a story told by Abraham Heschel a Jewish philosopher. Abraham Heschel often referred to...
HEBREW WORD STUDY – COMING FULL CIRCLE
Psalms 138:8: “The Lord will perfect that which concerns me, thy mercy O Lord endures forever. Forsake not the works of thine own hands.” “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens “A Tale of Two Cities.” Charles...
HEBREW WORD STUDY – BEING ANGRY WITH GOD
Job 27:3 “All the while my breath is in me but the Spirit of God is in my nostrils.” Translators have really played around with this verse. No one seems to know for sure whether to render this as the breath of God is in my nostrils or the Spirit of God...
HEBREW WORD STUDY – PIZZAZZ
Job 22:29: “When men are cast down thou shalt say, there is lifting up, and he shall save the humble person.” Job 22 is the reply to Job by his friend Eliphaz. It is suggested by many that his name means god of gold. This is likely due to an...


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