Month: Jun 2024

Be/Become: Y'hee (Root: hayah), verb (Strong's 1961) Root: הָיָה Sounds like: haw-yaw, y'hee It occurred to me, recently, that we've looked at many Biblical Hebrew words on this blog, but we've never looked at the first word God uttered in the text. Today we will rectify that oversight by lookin at the word BE (as… Continue reading Y’hee: (Let there) BE!

El Shaddai  אֵ֣ל שַׁדַּ֔י Genesis 35:11-12 [God to Jacob:] “I am God Almighty [A'ni El Shaddai אֲנִ֨י אֵ֤ל שַׁדַּי֙]; be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a multitude of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from you. And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and I will give the land… Continue reading Revisiting SHADDAI: Provider, Sustainer, Defender

Heyakh: A-ha! Interjection word (Strong’s 1889) Root: הֶאָח Sounds like: hey'awkh I was a teenager in the mid to late 1980’s and I was drawn to new wave/synth pop artists such as Tears for Fears, OMD, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Corey Hart, and the Norwegian band, A-ha. I recently made an ‘80s play-list and the A-ha… Continue reading Heyakh: An A-HA Moment.

HARD WORK/TOIL/GRIEF/SORROW: Atsav, verb (Stong’s 6087, 6088); masculine noun (Strong’s 6089, 6090, 6092, 6093); feminine noun (Strong’s 6094). Root verb: עָצַב Sounds like: atz-ahv One of the wonderful things about reading the Hebrew Bible in the original language is the discovery of long-held misinterpretations and its impact on the full story of the Gospel message.… Continue reading Atsav: TOIL & SORROW, and a New Look at Genesis 3:16

FLOURISHING/LUXURIANT/VIBRANT/GREEN: ra’anan, adjective (Strong’s 7488); Aramaic adjective: ra'anan (Strong's 7487). Root: רַעֲנָן Sounds like: rah-a'nawn Ra’anan is an adjective, which means it’s a descriptor word. It adds a description to the noun it is associated with, and in the Hebrew Bible it is always (with only one exception) associated with trees. For this reason, ra’anan… Continue reading Ra’anan: FLOURISHING Trees, VIBRANT Gardens