Hebrew Word Study – Weariness – Ayeph – Ayin Yod Pei Jeremiah 31:25: “For I have satiated the weary soul.”  “Sometime exhausted with toil and endeavor, I wish I could sleep forever and ever. But then this reflection my longings allay, I shall be doing it one of...

Hebrew Word Study – Laid Up – Tsaphan – Sade Pei Nun  Proverbs 13:22:  “A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.” Leviticus 14:34: “When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to...

Hebrew Word Study – Intimate Thoughts – Sechu – Sine Cheth Vav Amos 4:13,  “For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what [is] his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth,...

Hebrew Word Study – For Me – Li – Lamed Yod  Psalms 118:6: “The Lord is on my side, I will not fear what can man do unto me?”“I am not at all concerned about that…but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation be on the Lord’s side.”   Abraham...

Hebrew Word Study – A Porter – Sibboleth – Samek Beth Lamed Taw  Judges 12:6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell...

Hebrew Word Study – Sojourner – Gur  Gimmel Vav Resh Genesis 23:4: “I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.” Hebrews 11:9: “By faith he sojourned in the land of promise,...

Hebrew Word Study – First of the First – Res’shith Bikure – Resh Aleph Shin Yod Taw   Beth Kap Vav Resh Yod  Exodus 23:19:  “The first of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God, Thou shalt not seethe a yearling in his mother’s...

Hebrew Word Study – Distasteful – Marim – Mem Resh Mem Exodus 15:23: “And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter, therefore the name of it was Marah.”  There is the story of a woman who did everything to try and...

Hebrew Word Study – An Appendage – Zanav – Zayin Nun Beth Deuteronomy 28:13: “And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I...