Hebrew Word Study – Shadows  – Tzalemat - צַלְמָ֡וֶת  - Sade Lamed Mem Vav Taw Psalms 23:4b: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death” In the Hebrew Bible the word death is not directly in this sentence. Yet, in a way. Translators however...

Aramaic Word Study  Key – Qalid - קלידֵ   – Qop Lamed Yod Daleth  Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.I had always found it strange that Jesus always...

Aramaic Word Study – Just Between You and God  –  ארָזָא  ‘Araza – Aleph Resh Zayin Aleph  I Timothy 3:9: “Holding the mysteries of the faith in pure conscience.”  It seems like every Bible student, pastor and teacher has chimed in on this verse with their idea...

Hebrew Word Study - Distance Yourself - Rachaq.  Resh Cheth Qop    Exodus 23:7: “Distance yourself from words of falsehood, do not kill and innocent or righteous man.”In our Torah Study this week on Saturday we will be addressing the story of Rachab of Jericho and her...

Hebrew Word Study – Exciting the Senses  –  יָפֶ֣ה  Yapah – Yod Pei Hei Ecclesiastes 3:11: “He has made everything beautiful in its time.”I used to be a chaplain in a nursing home and every Sunday I would hold a service where I would play the keyboard and we would...

Aramaic Word Study – Sufficient – Sephaq – סָפֵק  Samek Pei Qop Matthew  6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.“Worrying is like paying on a debt that...

Hebrew Word Study – Wild Beast of the Desert – Tsiyim  צִיִּ֔ים  Sade Yod Yod Mem  Isaiah 13:21-22: “But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. The...

Hebrew Word Study – Lion, Ox and Eagle – אֲרִי שׁ֥וֹר נֶ֖שֶׁר  Ari, Shor, Nesher   Aleph Resh Yod,   Shine Vav Resh    Nun Shin Resh  Ezekiel 1:10,13: “As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man; each of the four had the face of a lion on the right...

Hebrew Word Study – A Pledge  -  Ha’erabon  הָֽעֵרָבוֹן֮ Hei Ayin Resh Beth Vav Nun Genesis 38:18:  “And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thine hand. And he gave [it] her, and came in unto...

Hebrew Word Study – All His Heart – Kal Levo   כָּל־ לִבּוֹ֒ Kap Lamed   Lamed Beth Vav  Judges 16:18: “And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, come up at this once for he has shown me all...