(First, please forgive all of the highlights and note symbols in the Scripture screenshots. They have been done over the years with various studies and do not pertain to the current discussion.) Next, please look simply at the way that the Bible translators have structured the text in the English translations versus the format in …
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Blog 202. Baby Steps
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/186LdNxpjU/?mibextid=wwXIfr Hopefully all can open the links in this blog. In case not, refer to the movie “What About Bob.” In order to make progress in the way of YHWH, we must do it s-l-o-w-l-y. We do this because the hearts of people must be changed, and we are not able to change hearts; only YHWH changes hearts. …
Blog 201. When is משפט Justice and When Judgment?
⦁ ▸ Note BDB does NOT use “justice” for משפט. For this, we should not be so “mechanical” or “machine-like” in our translations. We should be “impeccable” with our word. Many times in what I have shared previously, using BDB as the basis for the more literal translations, I have used “judgment” when it felt uncomfortable to …
Blog 200. “Identity Politics”
Also see Blog 146. דמים Revisited. And you can search for “superlatives” and “high hand” in LogAndSpeck. ⦁ Deuteronomy 32:27-28 27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand, Lest they should say, “Our hand (is) high; And it is not the LORD who has done all this.“‘ 28 “For they (are) a nation void of counsel, …
Blog 198. Prescription
We Are Each Created As Individuals with our own specific Genetics and our own specific Background I really appreciate the word used in translation as “prescription,” (you will see below at ◆) with my medical background. God, as the great Physician (see Exodus 15:26, Psalm 103:1-3, and Mark 2:17), has an individualized “prescription” for each of us. That “prescription” is God’s purpose/intent for …
Blog 197. The Stranger הגר
Impression קרא summon/call; קרע tear; pull in opposite directions; ארך long; prolong; thigh; אכר trouble ריח scent; aroma; ירא fear ערך arrange; organize הגר the stranger cognate permutations (control) – can be +/- positive/negative ▸ g1165. δειγματίζω deigmatizō; from g1164. δεῖγμα deigma; to exhibit: — make a shew. AV (1) – make a show 1; to make an example of, to show as an example ▸ g1164. δεῖγμα deigma is from g1166. δείκνυμι deiknymi …
Blog 196. Errata
This is to notify readers that I have made an rrror a few times in the past entries, obviously not intentional. The occurrences have been few, but may potentially have skewed some findings occurring later in the same vers. I show an example here for your understanding. I have followed the “rule” of excluding the …
Blog 195. Feel מש
I was struggling with another entry to share here, but instead I was led to share this. I hope it touches someone. ⦁ Exodus 10:21 (NKJV – The Ninth Plague: Darkness) 21 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness which …
Blog 194. Which in your(pl.) Midst אשר בתוככם in relation to קדש
(✱ ➽ Need to look at these with עמדי – see separate note בתוך עמדי In Midst / With Me) ⦁ ▸ Tanakh (5 results) 1. Bereshit 23:9 (Mikraot Gedolot) וְיִתֶּן לִי אֶת מְעָרַת הַמַּכְפֵּלָה אֲשֶׁר לוֹ אֲשֶׁר בִּקְצֵה שָׂדֵהוּ בְּכֶסֶף מָלֵא יִתְּנֶנָּה לִּי בְּתוֹכְכֶם לַאֲחֻזַּת קָבֶר. ⦁ Genesis 23:8-9 8 And he spoke with them, saying, “If it is your wish that …