WORD STUDY – GIVEN IN MARRIAGE Deuteronomy 32:20: “How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?” Deuteronomy 32:20 is poetry. Poetry is an art form. Art is meant to convey a feeling, arouse an emotion. There […]
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WOrd STudy: Given In Marriage
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Word Study: Led By Spirit
WORD STUDY – LED BY THE SPIRIT Matthew 4:1-2 “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. (2) And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.” This passage has always baffled me. What spirit led Jesus into the wilderness? […]
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Word Study: Vipers ( Aramaic)
WORD STUDY – VIPERS (ARAMAIC) Matthew 3:4,7-9: “ And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. (7)But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, […]
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Word Study: Open My Eyes
WORD STUDY – OPEN MY EYES Numbers 22:28 “And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?” Numbers 22:31 “Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing […]
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Word Study: In The Beginning
QUICK WORD STUDY – IN THE BEGINNING Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the earth.” John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word.” The three English words, in the beginning, are just one word for Hebrew and Aramaic, bere’shith in Hebrew and brasheeth in Aramaic. In the Hebrew and Aramaic text of Genesis God […]
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Quick Word Study: Pray פלל
QUICK WORD STUDY – PRAY פלל II Chronicles 7:14: “If my people who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked way, then will I hear from the heavens and will forgive their sin, and heal their land.” The word prayer is palal. It is […]
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Word Study; Fellowship שׁותפ
QUICK WORD STUDY – FELLOWSHIP שׁותפ Acts 2:42: “And they devoted themselves in the apostle’s doctrine and fellowship.” The disciples spoke Aramaic and the Aramaic word they used for fellowship is shauteph which is closely related to the Hebrew word asephah. It is an agricultural word used for the swarming of insects that would devour […]
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Quick Word Study: Refuge שׁבג
QUICK WORD STUDY – REFUGE שׁבג Psalms 9:9 “The Lord will also be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.” Refuge in Hebrew is the word shagav. It means a high place, to be raised up, set in security, to make powerful, to strengthen, strong place. It has a built in […]
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Word Study: Cherish חב
QUICK WORD STUDY – CHERISH – (ARAMAIC) KAV חב John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” English has an all purpose word of affection called love. We love Big Macs and we love our […]
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Word Study: Beautiful
יפה YAPAH BEAUTIFUL Ecclesiastes 3:11: “He hath made everything beautiful in His time.” Beautiful in Hebrew is yapah. In its Semitic root it is a term used by a craftsman who carefully crafts various pieces of material to fit precisely together. It is used for building a palace using various combinations of building material that […]
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Word Study: Carpenter נגרא
WORD STUDY – CARPENTER (ARAMAIC) Nagara נגרא Mark 6:3: “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.” This is an example where the translation may be technologically correct but […]
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Word Study: Belived Friend
WORD STUDY – YADIYAD ידוד Beloved Friend Genesis 28:16: “And Jacob awoke out of his sleep and he said: ‘Surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not.” The Hebrew word for “I knew” is yada’. This means more than just knowing, it is an intimate knowing. When we read a passage that […]
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Eord Study: Imperfect ( Aramaic)
WORD STUDY – IMPERFECT – (ARAMAIC) BISHA בישׁא Matthew 7:11: “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” Did Jesus really teach that all fathers who give good gifts to their […]
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Word Study : The Letter Hei ה
WORD STUDY – THE LETTER HEI ה Matthew 7:13: “Enter ye at the strait gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat.” Rabbis in the time of Jesus would often illustrate spiritual truths using Hebrew letters. The letter Hei was […]
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Word Study:Palsy ( Aramaic) שׁרא
WORD STUDY – PALSY – (ARAMAIC) שׁרא SHERA’ Matthew 8:6-9: “And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.” Palsy in Aramaic is shera’ which means to be taken. It is the word used when a Jewish man declares that he has taken a bride. In other words he has taken […]
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Word Study: Mighty Ones- Beni ‘elim
WORD STUDY – MIGHTY ONES Beni ‘elim Psalms 29:1: “Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.” Who are these mighty ones who are to give strength to the Lord? There is much debate and some modern translations like the NIV will just paraphrase (give their opinion) and say […]
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Word Study: Weary
WORD STUDY – WEARY : APHAH עפיה Jeremiah 31:25: “I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.” God will refresh the weary? Big deal. I get home from work I am weary. I love that feeling of weariness after a hard day of work and I love those little rituals, having dinner, taking a […]
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Word Study:Eat
WORD STUDY – EAT : ‘AKAL אכל John 6:54: “Whosoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood will have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” The word in Aramaic that Jesus spoke for the word eat was ‘akal. There are two possible root words, ‘alakam which means to consume […]
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Word Study: Book Of Lives
WORD STUDY – BOOK OF LIVES SOFAR CHAIM ספרחימ Psalms 69:28: “Let them be blotted out of the book of the life, and not be written with the righteous.” In Hebrew the words for Book of life is sofar chaim. Chaim is a word we recognize as life but this is written in a plural […]
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Word Study: Show Himself Friendly
WORD STUDY – SHOW HIMSELF FRIENDLY LEHITERO’A’A להתרע Proverbs 18:24: “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” The KJV of this verse never made sense. The two phrases just did not seem to fit. They are like two separate thoughts yet in […]
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