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...

ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – MERCY SEAT – חוסיא Hebrew 9:5:  “And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.” The Greek word for mercy seat is hilasterion and is not a word found in extra-Biblical literature, it appears...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – MOUNTAIN – HAR  הר  Hei Resh  Deuteronomy 2:3: “Enough of your circling this mountain, turn yourself north.” Years ago I saw a book in a Christian bookstore which was titled: “One More Lap Around The Mountain.”  That title sure can strike home to...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – PRIDE & ARROGANCE – GA’OWN   גאון  Gimmel Aleph Vav Nun  Ezekiel 16:9: "'Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.” NIV If I were to ask the...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – LET THERE BE LIGHT -  YEHI ‘OHR  יהי אור  Yod Hei Yod  Aleph Vav Resh Genesis 1:3:  “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” And God said; “Yehi ohr”  “Let there be light.”  Grammatical this is an antiptosis which is a rhetorical...