Hebrew Word Study – A Correction – ‘AvarZephaniah 1:18: “Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. But the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy.” There was a conference in France for a large...

Aramaic Word Study – Imitate – Dama – Daleth Mem Aleph  Matthew 22:37: “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  (38) This is the first and great commandment. (39) And the second is like...

Aramaic  Word Study – Dawn – Chashak – Cheth Shin KapJohn 3:19: “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” The other day, I had an old boy on my disability bus named...

Hebrew Word Study – The Mouth of God – Al Pi AdonaiDeuteronomy 34:5: “So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.” When Moses died Scripture does not say he just died, but that he died by the word of the Lord....

Aramaic Word Study – Joy – ChadahLuke 15:10: “Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.” Recently, my study partner Laura and I walked up to her apartment and there I saw her two little Havanese dogs...

Hebrew Word Study – Famine – Ra’avHabakkah 2:4: “The just shall live by his faith.” “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.”  Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Most of us in the United States do not know or understand what a famine is...

Hebrew Word Study – Return – Shuv – Shin Beth Taw  Deuteronomy 30:2-3: “And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;  that then the...

Hebrew Word Study – Face – Panah – Pei Nu Hei  Exodus 33:11: “And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.”...

Hebrew Word Study – For The Lord  - LaYHVH   Lamed Yod Vav Hei Exodus 32:26: “Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.” ​If you grew up in an...

Aramaic Word Study – Fragile Vessel – Bamana        Beth Mem Aleph Nun Aleph II Corinthians 4:7: “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”Author’s note: This study as many others is found in Chaim’s...