HEBREW WORD STUDY – A NET –  RESHETH רשת     Resh Shin TawPsalms 25:15: “Mine eyes [are] ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.” Practically all commentators agree that when the Psalmist says that the Lord will pluck his feet out of the net,...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – FILTHY RAGS – YEBEGED ‘IDIM בגד עדים   Beth Gimmel Daleth   Ayin Daleth Yod MemIsaiah 64:6,  “But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousness’s [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – SACRED PROSTITUTE – KODASHAH קדשה  Qop Daleth Shin HeiEzekiel 36:21: “Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, I do not this for your sakes O house of Israel, but for mine holy names sake which you have profaned among the...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – SIMPLE – PATHAH  פתה Pei Taw HeiPsalms 116:6: “The Lord preserves the simple, I was brought low and He helped me.” “Ich bin anar un ich gleib.”   (I am a fool and I believe)   Rabbi Noach of Lechovitz.  “You mean people actually believe what we...

ARAMAIC WORD STUDY – BELIEVE – HAYMAN הימן Hei Yod Mem Nun   ​Acts 16:30-31: “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? (31) And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” I have always wondered...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – BRIBERY – ‘AVEN עבן   Ayin Beth NunPsalms 66:18: “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:” The warning in this verse is obvious.  If you are aware of iniquity in your heart, the Lord will not hear your prayers.  But when you...

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 – MEN OF WAR –    ‘ANESHI HAMILCHAMAH          המלחמה   אנשי   Aleph Nun Shin Yod   Hei Mem Lamed Cheth Mem HeiJoshua 5:6:  “For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – CONFINEMENT – SHAMAR שמר Shin Mem ReshProverbs 4:23: “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” Last evening I watched a documentary on the history of espionage.  They said that the most effective tool an...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – TAKE A WALK WITH GOD – SABBATH  שבת  Shin Beth TawExodus 20:8-10: “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. (9) Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:(10) But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not...