HEBREW WORD STUDY – MELTING HEARTS   Joshua 14:8: “Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the Lord my God.”  We all know the story of the twelve spies sent out to scout out the Promised Land.  Ten returned...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – LOVE – TOV MO’ED –מאד  טוב   Genesis 1:31: “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” You won’t find this in any lexicon or commentary, nor has this idea been...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – AN INTIMATE VISIT – PAQAD פקד Pei Qop DalethPsalms 17:3 “Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night.” If you have ever celebrated the Sabbath evening with a Jewish orthodox family you will notice they leave their doors open...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – NOISE LIKE A DOG – YEHEMU KAKALEV  יהמו ככלב Yod Hei Mem Vav   Kap Kap Lamed Beth Lamentations 3:63:  “Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick.” Psalms 59:14: “And at evening let them return; [and] let them make a noise...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – LIKE THE HEAT OF THE DAY – KECHOM HAYOM כחם היום  Kap Cheth Mem   Hei Yod Vav Mem ​ ”Genesis 18:1:  “And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; As I was preparing for this weeks Torah...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – BURDEN OF PAIN – ‘AVAQ  עוק Ayin Vav QopAmos 2:12-13: “But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Prophecy not.’  Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.” Amos is a...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – ENGRAVENED – CHAQAQ חקק Cheth Qop Qop “Isaiah 49:15-16: “Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son if her womb?  Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.  Behold, I have engraven thee upon the...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – REDEMPTION OF THE FIRSTBORN - PIDYON HABEN  פדיון הבן Exodus 13:2: “Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, [both] of man and of the beast: it [is] mine.” Luke 2:22-23: “And when the days of her...