Word Study: Sackcloth

WORD STUDY – SACKCLOTH -שׁקק Jonah 3:8: “But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; yea let them turn everyone from their evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.” About six years ago the nation was flooded with...

Word Study: Bela בנא

WORD STUDY – BELA בנא Genesis 36:32: “And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah.” Actually, this verse should literally reads from the Hebrew as: “And the King of Edom was Bela the son of Beor and the name of his city [was]...

Word Study: Mansions

WORD STUDY – MANSIONS – (ARAMAIC) אנוא John 14:2: “In my father’s house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you.” I once had a friend named George who was a former Greek teacher. In fact he was not only fluent in the Biblical Koine Greek but modern...

Word Study: Wandering Desire

WORD STUDY – WANDERING DESIRE Ecclesiastes 6:9: “Better is the sight of eyes than the wandering of the desire, this is also vanity and the vexation of the spirit.” One of the stories from Geoffrey Chaucer’ s “Canterbury Tales” is entitled “The Pardoner’s Tail” In this...

Word Study:A Husband Of Blood

WORD STUDY – A HUSBAND OF BLOOD Exodus 4:24-26: “And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody...