HEBREW WORD STUDY – SACRIFICE

HEBREW WORD STUDY – SACRIFICE

HEBREW WORD STUDY – SACRIFICE – ZAVACH  – זבח   Deuteronomy 32:17: They sacrificed until devils, not to God, to gods whom they knew not, to new gods, that came newly upon, whom your fathers fear not.”  In our modern society sacrificing animals as a burnt...
HEBREW WORD STUDY – COMPASSION

HEBREW WORD STUDY – COMPASSION

HEBREW WORD STUDY – COMPASSION – RACHAM -רחמ  Deuteronomy 22:6: “If you come across a bird’s nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.  You may take the young...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – HIDING

HEBREW WORD STUDY – HIDING  –  SATHAM  סתמ   Deuteronomy 31:18: “And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.” There is a story told by Abraham Heschel a Jewish philosopher...
HEBREW WORD STUDY – AND THE DAYS DREW NEAR

HEBREW WORD STUDY – AND THE DAYS DREW NEAR

HEBREW WORD STUDY – AND THE DAYS DREW NEAR – YIQEREBO YEME ימי יקרבו Yod Mem Yod Yod Qop Resh Beth Vav Genesis 47:29: “And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray...
HEBREW WORD STUDY – BRING FORTH – TOLEDOTH

HEBREW WORD STUDY – BRING FORTH – TOLEDOTH

HEBREW WORD STUDY – BRING FORTH – TOLEDOTH – תולדת Taw Vav Lamed Daleth Taw Genesis 6:9: “These are the generations of Noah; Noah was a righteous man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” “These are the generations of Noah.” Eleh is a form of il...
HEBREW WORD STUDY – ENTER THE HEART OF GOD

HEBREW WORD STUDY – ENTER THE HEART OF GOD

HEBREW WORD STUDY – ENTER THE HEART OF GOD – KAPAKAH כפכה Kap Pei Kap Hei Psalm 139:5: “Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.” I suppose you could translate this verse a number of ways. What I find interesting in this verse is the word for...