HEBREW WORD STUDY – LOOK UP – TISA’ ETH ROSH  תשא את רשה  Taw Shin Aleph   Aleph Taw   Resh Shin HeiExodus 30:12 “When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD, when you number them,...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE FULLNESS OF JOY – SOBA SEMACHOT שבע שמחות  Sine Beth Ayin   Sine Mem Cheth Vav TawPsalms 16:11: “You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” Well, today was just one of...

ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – RABBONI – MY TEACHER – רבני Resh Beth Nun YodJohn 20:11-12,16:  “But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, [and looked] into the sepulcher,12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and...

ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – THE WEDDING DANCE – CHADOTHA חדותא  Cheth Daleth Vav Taw AlephMatthew 27:46: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying ‘Eli, Eli Lama Sabachthani?’ that is My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” This being Easter...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – A POSITIVE IMAGINATION - SAVAR  - סברא   SAMEK BETH RESH ALEPHGenesis 30:37: “Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees and peeled white stripes in them exposing the white which was in the rods.  And he set the rods which he...

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 – A NET –  RESHETH רשת     Resh Shin TawPsalms 25:15: “Mine eyes [are] ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.” Practically all commentators agree that when the Psalmist says that the Lord will pluck his feet out of the net,...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – FILTHY RAGS – YEBEGED ‘IDIM בגד עדים   Beth Gimmel Daleth   Ayin Daleth Yod MemIsaiah 64:6,  “But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousness’s [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – SACRED PROSTITUTE – KODASHAH קדשה  Qop Daleth Shin HeiEzekiel 36:21: “Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, I do not this for your sakes O house of Israel, but for mine holy names sake which you have profaned among the...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – SIMPLE – PATHAH  פתה Pei Taw HeiPsalms 116:6: “The Lord preserves the simple, I was brought low and He helped me.” “Ich bin anar un ich gleib.”   (I am a fool and I believe)   Rabbi Noach of Lechovitz.  “You mean people actually believe what we...