Month: Nov 2023

GAIN/PROFIT/GREED: batsa, verb (Strong’s 1214); betsa, masculine noun (Strong’s 1215)  Root: בָּצַע Sounds like: bah’tsa/beh’tsa Greed: More, More, More Greed is the overwhelming desire to obtain MORE… more money, more possessions, more desirable life experiences, more food, more success. Many lament that the modern world seems very greed oriented, but greed is not a modern problem,… Continue reading Batsa: GREEDY For Gain

Peleshet, the place known as Philistia (Strong’s 6429) and P’lish’tim, the Philistines people (Strong’s 6430) Peleshet Root: פְלֶשֶׁת P'lish'tim Root: פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים Etymology of Philistines/Palestinians Egypt: Peleset (name of this particular group of Sea Peoples found in Egyptian inscriptions) Hebrew: Peleshet/P’lish’tim Assyrian: Pilistu/Palashtu Greek: Phylistieim Roman: Palaestina/Palestine With what’s going on in Israel these days there’s… Continue reading P’lish’tim: The Formidable PHILISTINES.

FOOL: naval, eveel, sakal, kesil  Today we’ll look at a few root words commonly translated as “fool”, “foolish”, or “folly” Why are there a few words for the concept of a fool? Well, Hebrew is not a basic language. Like most languages, there are many synonyms for many words. In the English language we have… Continue reading Naval, Eveel, Sakal, Kesil: So Many FOOLS

To Appear (or, to be seen) comes from the root verb, to see, ra'ah (Strong’s 7200). The root meaning of this word shows up over 1300 times in the Tanakh (Old Testament). To narrow things down, we're going to explore what it means to appear before YHWH. This is our final week exploring words from… Continue reading Era’eh: APPEARing Before God