I am in the process of doing the “deep dive” for the meaning of the two-letter Hebrew word בד, for the background of another entry. When I came to this, God’s Word inspired a connection, from which I felt I must stop and share. I will attempt to show my train of thought, but feel free …
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Blog 120 His Hand ידו
|| כבד This is an entry inserted between what we have just discussed in Blog 119, the idea of “having an impact,” and the next entries which will discuss ideas of understanding life, burdens, and haste somewhat more. The entire point of this entry is to indicate its seriousness. The section on the sacrifices will be …
Blog 119. Having an Influence on Others
Return to the idea of tent, אהל p.4 radiate in all directions, and the image we showed in Blog 37. Dwell in Tents, shown again here. The mental image of the ropes “radiating in all directions” is the picture to have in your mind. But here we will put a real emphasis on “all,” not just the ropes radiating outward, …
Blog 117. Tent אהל
Just looking at the three-letter cognate permutations: First the roots with the lamed in the פ position (remember terminology is based upon the root פעל, and since Hebrew reads right to last, the פ is first, ע middle, and ל the last position in the terminology). Please see that all of these beginning with lamed ל should be in the same group, i.e. combine groups D42 and D51. I …
Blog 115. אכל Cognate Permutations
אכל is a very common word in Tanakh. And this number does not include other derived nouns such as h0402 אכלה (18 occurrences in ESV Strong’s), h0396 אכילה (1 occ.), h3978 מאכל (4 occ.), h3979 מאכלת, h3980 מאכלת (2 occ.), h4361 מכלת (1 occ.), and others that may be related h8502 תכלה (1 occ.), h8503 תכלית (4 occ.), h8504 תכלת (48 occ.), and h1964 היכל (75 occ.) This is the “כל family:” • כֹּל-(in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, …
Blog 114. In what world do you live?
Following on Blog 113, now having gotten feedback from a couple of folks, hopefully, finally I can move along to this step. After we cover some of these “socially sensitive” topics, then there is a very large expanse to share with you. I anticipate that this entry will drive some away. I anticipate that the …
Blog 112. “Free Will” – choice בחר choose
We all seem to be so concerned about being able to choose. Perhaps a good topic: ❶ choosing (I simply comment before the following passage that here we are focusing on the word “choose,” בחר, but realize that the commonly occurring word “place” מקוםin the passage may not be talking about a physical location but about a concept …