ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – UMBILICAL CORD – SHERARA’  שררא   Shin Resh Resh AlephJohn 4:24: “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”  Jesus is speaking to a Samaritan woman.  The Samaritans were from the Northern district of...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – DILIGENCE – MISHAMAR – משמר  Mem Shin Mem ReshProverbs 4:23: “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”   The word English word diligence is used throughout the Bible in various contexts. There are really four...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE LORD’S POSSESSION – LAYHWH  ליהוה  Lamed Yod Hei Vav Hei ​Psalms 24:1: “A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Every translation I read has a possessive at the end of the...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – DEMAND TO RETURN – DRESH  דרש Daleth Resh ShinI Chronicles16:11: “Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his presence continually. It was a long day driving my disability bus. My body grew weary pushing wheel chairs, helping elderly on and off my...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – A PURE HEART – LEV TAHOR לב טהור  Lamed Beth   Teth Hei Vav ReshPsalm 51:10: “Create in me a clean heart, O’God and renew a right spirit within me.” I remember years ago an orthodox Jewish rabbi, showed me a special room in his house. It was filled...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – HIS WORD – DEVARO  דברו Daleth Beth Resh VavPsalms 56:4: “In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.” The first verse of this Psalm seems to suggest it was written by David during the time...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – DELIVERED – NATSAL נצל Nun Sade LamedPsalms 34:17: “The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.” When I was twelve years old Billy Graham held a two week crusade in Chicago. My family and I attended every...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – RIGHEOUS CRY – TSA’AQ צעק   Sade Ayin Qop Psalms 34:17-18: “The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. (18) The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite...

ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – BUT ONLY – ‘ELA’ EN  אלא אן  Aleph Lamed Aleph   Aleph NunMark 13:31-32: “Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. (32) But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the...