All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 2 Timothy 3:16 NIV Is useful – No, we’re not going to spend any more time investigating the meanings of “Scripture” or “God-breathed” or any of the participles of action that follow. We’ve been over that ground time and again. What…
Now at this time, as the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint developed on the part of the [b]Hellenistic Jews against the native Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food. Acts 6:1 NASB Hellenistic Jews – Notice the footnote? Here’s what it says: “Jews who adopted the Gr language and much of Gr culture through acculturation.” In other words, Luke notes…
So Moses wrote down this song on the same day, and taught it to the sons of Israel. Deuteronomy 31:22 NASB Moses wrote – I want to look at something about the linguistic cultural reflection in Hebrew verb-gender combinations. I think it’s fascinating, but it’s technical, at least to begin with. So I’m a bit…
Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” Exodus 3:13 NASB Name – I’ve often wondered why…
And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” Acts 2:12 NASB What does this mean? – Are you “full of sweet wine”? That’s what some of the bystanders thought when they heard the Galilean followers of Yeshua the Messiah speaking in their own languages. It was obvious…
One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” Titus 1:12 NASB Cretans – Crete has an ancient history. Home to the Minoans, significant to the Mycenaeans, and a major port island in the Roman Empire, Crete plays a role in the Mediterranean for thousands of years. …
and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: Galatians 1:2 NASB Churches – In 1349, a ship carrying wool set out from England, bound for some destination in the north. During its journey, crew members started dying. Attempts to quarantine the sick on board failed. The Black Plague took one person after…
Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, Jeremiah 1:4 NASB The word of the Lord – By now, I hope, we know that Hebrew is messy. Many of the sentences in the biblical text have multiple levels of meaning, are subject to nuances that cannot be captured in English (or any other language) and act more…
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the Lord.” Hosea 1:2 NASB Spoke through – Do you want to know the single most important key to understanding the Bible? Would…
And the Lord called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying, Leviticus 1:1 Hebrew World And the Lord called – Hebrew is a structural language. What I mean is that each of the consonants are like the structural beams of a building. They communicate in more ways than simply…
