Aramaic Word Study – Boast    שבח    Shavach   Shin Beth ChethPsalm 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...

Hebrew Word Study – The Key – Qalad  קלד  Qop Lamed DalethLuke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. I find it strange that Jesus always talks about the...

Hebrew Word Study – Seduce -  Patah   פתה  Pei Taw HeiIsaiah 50:1: “Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves,...

Hebrew Word Study – Travel – Nasa’  נסע    Nun Samek Ayin  Numbers 33:1: “These are the travels of the Children of Israel.”   “Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled.”  Robert Frost The Jewish sages are well known for their inyans.  An inyan...

Hebrew Word Study – The Kindness of God – Chasad Elohim  חםד אלהים  Cheth, Samek Daleth  Aleph Lamed Hei Yod Mem   ​II Samuel 9:1: “And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the...

​ HEBREW WORD STUDY – YOUR GOD – ELOHEKEM – אלהיכם Aleph Lamed Hei Yod Kap Mem Jeremiah 42:3-4: “That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do. (4) Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard [you]; behold, I...

Hebrew word study –  giants -  anakim  ענקים  Ayin Nun Qop Yod MemDeuteronomy 9:1-3: “Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, (2) A people great and...

Hebrew Word Study – The Key – Qalad           Qop Lamed DalethLuke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. I find it strange that Jesus always talks about the...

Hebrew Word Study – Discouragement - Pug      Pei Vav Gimmel  Psalms 38:8 “I am feeble and sore broken, I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.” This appears to be written at a time when David is really getting serious about his relationship with God....