HEBREW WORD STUDY – DELIVERED – NATSAL נצל Nun Sade LamedPsalms 34:17: “The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.” When I was twelve years old Billy Graham held a two week crusade in Chicago. My family and I attended every...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – RIGHEOUS CRY – TSA’AQ צעק   Sade Ayin Qop Psalms 34:17-18: “The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. (18) The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite...

ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – BUT ONLY – ‘ELA’ EN  אלא אן  Aleph Lamed Aleph   Aleph NunMark 13:31-32: “Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. (32) But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – LOOK UP – TISA’ ETH ROSH  תשא את רשה  Taw Shin Aleph   Aleph Taw   Resh Shin HeiExodus 30:12 “When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD, when you number them,...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE FULLNESS OF JOY – SOBA SEMACHOT שבע שמחות  Sine Beth Ayin   Sine Mem Cheth Vav TawPsalms 16:11: “You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” Well, today was just one of...

ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – RABBONI – MY TEACHER – רבני Resh Beth Nun YodJohn 20:11-12,16:  “But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, [and looked] into the sepulcher,12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and...

ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – THE WEDDING DANCE – CHADOTHA חדותא  Cheth Daleth Vav Taw AlephMatthew 27:46: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying ‘Eli, Eli Lama Sabachthani?’ that is My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” This being Easter...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – A POSITIVE IMAGINATION - SAVAR  - סברא   SAMEK BETH RESH ALEPHGenesis 30:37: “Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees and peeled white stripes in them exposing the white which was in the rods.  And he set the rods which he...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – A PURE HEART – LEV TAHOR לב טהור  Lamed Beth   Teth Hei Vav ReshPsalm 51:10: “Create in me a clean heart, O’God and renew a right spirit within me.” I remember years ago an orthodox Jewish rabbi, showed me a special room in his house. It was filled...