Aramaic Word Study – Wake Up – ‘Er ער  Ayin ReshColossians 4:2: “Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;” I remember as a child in the third grade just before Thanksgiving our teacher during our music class introduced us to a classic song that was...

Hebrew Word Study – Mild Wickedness - Lerosha’- לרשע  Lamed Resh Shin Ayin   ​Malachi 3:18:  Then shall you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serves God and him that serves not.” The Talmud looks at this verse and asks:  ...

Hebrew Word Study – Lips – Saphah שפה  Sine Pei Hei  Genesis 11:4: “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” Most of us are...

Hebrew Word Study – Ark – Tevah תבה Taw Beth HeiGenesis 6:14: “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.” Isaiah 54:9: “For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the...

Hebrew Word Study – Eve – Chavah  חוה  Cheth Vav HeiGenesis 3:20: “And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.” Most linguists will tell you that translation by definition is really just commentary. Words have more than just a...

Hebrew Word Study – Synchronicity -  Ta’am  תאם  Taw Aleph Mem  Song of Solomon 7:3: “Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes [that are] twins.” Genesis 50:20: “But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as [it...

Hebrew Word Study – Despise – Bazah  בזה Beth Zayin Hei ​Numbers 15:31: “Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity [shall be] upon him.” Today I have a gentleman on my disability...

Hebrew Word Study – Wisdom – Shakal  שכל Shin Kap LamedProverbs 8:1 “Does not wisdom call and understanding lift up her voice?” Genesis 3:6 “When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to...

Hebrew Word Study – Reward – Shillumath  שלומת Shin Lamed Vav Mem TawPsalms 91:8: “Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.” Leave it to the KJV to come up with a word which in the twenty-first century sounds like an absurdity.  The...