Aramaic Word Study – Lawyer – Saphra  סָפרֵא      Samek Pei Resh Aleph Luke 11:52: “Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and they that were entering in ye hindered.” Some translations say: “Woe to you...

Hebrew Word Study – Ignore – Shakach – שְׁכָּחֵ֣ – Shin Kap Chet Psalms 13:1  “How long Oh Lord will thou forget me forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?”We added two brand-new buses to our disability bus fleet.  I asked one of the lucky drivers who was...

Hebrew Word Study – Ownership – Ba’al  בַּ֖עַל  Beth Ayin Lamed  I Kings 18:28, “And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.”This classic story pits God Jehovah against the god Baal...

Hebrew Word Study: Have turned: cabab- סָבַב 1Kings 18:37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. I call this the Elijah prayer and use it as a model when I cry out to God...

Hebrew Word Study – A New Song – Sir Chadash שיר חדש Shin Yod Resh   Cheth Daleth Shin Psalms 96:1 “O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.”In 1910 Luther B. Bridgers was an evangelist serving God in the Southern States of America by...

Hebrew Word Study: Esther-Hadassah: הדסה Esther 2:7 He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young lady was beautiful of form and face, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his...

Hebrew Word Study – Drop – Kamar – כְּמַ֣ר Kap Mem Resh  Isaiah 40:15: “Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.”    The text actually reads:...

Aramaic Word Study – Do Business – Tagar -  תַּגּר   Taw Gimmel Resh  Luke 19:13: “And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.”Lately, I have been hearing certain Evangelical preachers really start hitting us...

Aramaic Word Study – Harmonious Relationship – Tamah – תֵּמהָ  Taw Mem Hei  Acts 10: 9-10: “On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: (10) And he became very hungry, and...

Hebrew Word Study – Boast – Halel – הַלֵּ֣ל Hei Lamed Lamed  Psalm 34:2: “My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear [thereof], and be glad.”I recently thought I really had my pride under control until someone told me I was self-absorbed.  After...