Hebrew Word Study – Burdened with Pain – ‘Iq   Ayin Yod Qop Amos 2:12-13: “But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Prophecy not.’  Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.” Amos is a...

Hebrew Word Study – Speak to Her Heart – Divaeti al Livah – Daleth Beth Resh Taw Yod  Ayin Lamed   Lamed Beth HeiHosea 2:14: “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.”   I remember as a child I was so...

​Hebrew Word Study – Feign - Shaqar   Shin Qop Resh  Jeremiah 3:10: “And yet for all this  her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord.” We have to realize that at the time of this prophecy, Judah was a very...

Hebrew Word Study – All Alone – Yachid – Yod Cheth Yod Daleth Psalms  25:16: “Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am alone and afflicted.” “Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone.  And it has created the word solitude...

Hebrew Word Study – Unsavory –  Tapel - Taw Pei LamedPsalms 65:2: “O you who hear prayer, to you all me will come.” This word for hear is shama and is very difficult to translate as we really do not have an all-purpose English word to convey its intent.   If we render...

Hebrew Word Study – Unfaithful Spouse – Zanah – Zayin Nun HeiHosea 14:8: “Ephraim shall say, What have I to do anymore with idols, I have heard him and observed him, I am like a green fir tree, from me is thy fruit found.  Little is known about Hosea.  What we do know...

Hebrew Word Study – Wail – Yalal – Yod Lamed LamedHosea 7:13-14: “Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. (14) And they have not...