Hebrew Word Study: Hedge – Suk שׂוּךְ
Job 1:11 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
I have heard for many years Christians talk and teach about God building a hedge around us. I was never sure what that meant, I would usually think of something like the picture below. But then I examined this word in the Hebrew, it is the word sukah which comes from the same root as sukkah, the Jewish holiday of the Feast of Booths which they just celebrated.
But sukah has other usages. It means protection and covering, but a protection and covering by intermingling and weaving throughout. It is also a word used for intercourse. There is another possible root word sakah which comes from the root word savak. This means the same, as far as weaving and intermingling, but this is a weaving and intermingling of love.
The enemy knew that he could not touch Job because God had so intermingled Himself in Job with his love and He could not detach His love from Job. But the enemy knew that Job could voluntarily unattach himself from God. Sort of like a mother can never stop loving her son but he may decided to join the military one day and go off to war. He has unattached himself from his mother where she can no longer protect him but she still loves him just as much as always.
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Thus, the only way the enemy could remove this sakah from Job was to attack all that Job loved on this earth, his family, his possessions and reputation. Then Job would voluntarily unmingle himself from God’s savak or love and he would reject God’s love. But the enemy’s plan did not work for the love of God meant more to him than anything on this earth and he clung to the love of God.
The enemy might just attack us at the nearest and most precious thing in this phsyical realm. In doing so he could cause us to voluntarily detach ourselves from this hedge or sakah. But like Job, we can also cling to the savak the love of God that has intermingled itself in us.
Ralph Carmichael once wrote a song for the movie the Cross and the Switchblade to speak about the gang leader Nicky Cruz whose life was transformed by the love of God: “Love was only a word to me, a word to use when you don’t know what to say, just to pass the time away, when nothings happening, love was something to think about but not to show it that would be uncool you know, love was for the fool you know… But then I heard about a love so great, makes you love the one who has done you wrong. Oh, I see love as the Son of God, who gave His life for a mean and lonely guy like me, although it hard for me to see, I will try to understand.”
That is where the enemy gets us, we just don’t understand the depth of God’s love. But we must try to understand. This is the mission of Laura and I, Chaim Bentorah ministries, to explore the depths of God’s love so when the enemy tries to attack us at our most vulnerable state we can say like Job who knew and understood the depths of God’s love: “Though He slay me, yet I will trust in Him.” www.HebrewWordStudy.com
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Thanks & Blessings, it means a lot to me!
I really love this teaching about the hedge of love!!! I makes sense & I definitely will use it to pray for my family & myself. Yes, the intermingling w/ Yeshua is the best of all, first & foremost!
Oh my! I had never seen this before. For years I have prayed for God to place a hedge of thorn, wall of fire and a shield around individuals but never considering the hedge of love. My eyes literally sprang open when reading that part as I received His love. This also is a timely message for the Church right now. The attack to move our focus from His love onto the darkness which is occurring in this country today. I am so blessed He has given us His written word.
Thank you for sharing that brother!!! I received it too! Amen!!! I got a prodigal I am praying for now… that needs that very thing so badly!!! Of course I know Father can do that without me asking, but He wants me to, so I am!!
Teresa, I had not seen my son for 22yrs. This year through a timeshare presentation and before attending, praying God would place us at a table with someone to share the gospel with, God used the man (presenter of the whole group) telling me of his broken relationship with his Dad and giving me advice on what to do with my son. It is such an amazing thing which happened. My son and I now stay in touch, he came to our house last week, he calls me Dad, I kissed him on the side of his head, and we tell each other we love each other. Before my wife (not his mother) and I went to the meeting, through prayer, I knew we were going to see our (person putting pressure on us to buy) was going to get saved. Boy was I shocked! Anyway hopefully this will renew your strength and hope for something good to occur.
Thank you for the deep treasures in more fully understanding God’s Word thru Hebrew insights.
Yesterday I was hiking in Texas hill country and saw a Cypress tree with roots exposed that linked with two other tree’s roots. The roots intermingled around each other even as the soils had been washed away exposing it all. The center tree had a tap root going straight down into the ground a foot below it. Your description of the word for hedge brought that photo to mind.
Twistted and rolled we are ,surely surely surely my beloved Chaim and Laura
Yesterday ABBA moved me to see number 352 of a e-roller 🛴 today you bring me new connection ,TODAH RABAH ABBA 🙌🏻
Your name meaning alltogether with your wife and childs IS a message from YAHUAH to your family generation and so on
Kisses,hugs and Blessings
I might be misunderstanding but neither Chaim nor I are married.
😭. Amen and you do teach that very well!!! So that I am continually reminded though the enemies fight against me hard about it. Now I understand how He has made it so they cannot prevail against me, because His love is intermingled with my very spirit, and soul I thing. It is not a question of believing it, anymore. I simply know the Truth. And He IS Perfect Love.
Thank you. As always, brilliant. Thank you for always bringing new and more meaning to the word of God. Never ever stop!! Please. I enjoy every email and in some way, that was exactly what I needed to hear…
Beautiful as always! Thank you for helping me understand such marvelous truths!