Hebrew Word Study – Unjust Gain – Batsar – Beth Sade Resh Psalms 30:9 “What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit.  Will the dust praise thee, will it declare your faithfulness?”It is believed that David wrote this Psalm during a time of illness when he...

Aramaic Word Study – Almost  – Baqalil -  Beth Qop Lamed Yod Lamed Acts 26:28: “Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You almost persuade me to become a Christian.”This study is  from the New Testament Aramaic, found in Chaim’s book: Aramaic Word Study which may be purchased...

Hebrew Word Study – Bread of Heaven – Lechem Shamayim – Lamed Cheth Mem   Shin MemYod Mem Psalm 78:24-25: “And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.  Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.”  If you...

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,...