You have likely noticed that I have an interest in linguistics. The time in which we live is very interesting in terms of linguistics. It seems we manufacture more and more new terminology now than ever before. I suppose it goes along with “the age,” and many other things that are in flux. I noticed …
Month: July 2023
Blog 146. דמים Revisited
I’ve ended up looking at many more passages with דמים, which we had explored before as “extreme in measure,” or as “excesses.” We did point out before that it is really the direction or the focus of the extreme that seems to be most critical in the teaching of Scripture. If the direction is toward the LORD, he appears …
Blog 145. Dance Series ❹ and final
Let us begin by returning to some more insight into other writings of Solomon/Shlomo. Ecclesiastes shares thoughts from him as a wise older man. Remember את/עד cognate permutations include עת “time.” And קהלת ↔︎ כלעת. Please recall we have spoken that both the focus of our striving, and its measure, are very important. And its restraint/its expression, both physical and emotional, and …
Blog 144 Dance Series ❸ Enough
We’ll begin here with a bit more of Solomon and a topic we referred to last time,“Enough.” We mentioned there are a number of Hebrew words translated in English as “enough,” one of which, מצא, is cognate with the root for messiah, משח. Numbers 11:22, where it appears twice, is very telling re: that word’s understanding (please read, with context …