How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Psalm 119:103 NASB Your words – What do Genesis 1:3, 3:1 and 3:10 have in common with Psalm 119:103? The answer is ʾāmar, the Hebrew verb for “say, speak, command, promise.” Of course, there are a lot of other verses that use this…
Establish Your [m]word to Your servant as that which produces reverence for You. Psalm 119:38 NASB [m]word – Notice the footnote attached to this translation. That note is to tell you that the usual Hebrew isn’t what we have in this verse. Instead of dābār we find ʾimrâ, both translated “word” in English so you wouldn’t…
I will meditate on Your precepts and [f]regard Your ways. Psalm 119:15 NASB Meditate – I think we’ve thoroughly modernized this one. Even Alter writes, “Let me dwell on Your decrees.” Both terms (meditate and dwell) move the thought from verbalization to contemplation. Both ignore the oral culture of the 10th Century B.C.E. Notice Cohen’s remark about the…
These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. And you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 NASB Repeat them diligently – Islam is…
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, . . .” Matthew 5:38-39a NIV Heard/ Tell – Lately we’ve remarked on the curious fact that Yeshua wrote nothing. Westerners are uncomfortable with that. Perhaps that’s why we rely so heavily on the writings of the…
בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ What verse is this? If you read Hebrew, you will instantly know that this is Bereshit 1:1 without the diacritical (vowel and cantillation) markings. All that you see above are the consonants. Can you read it? Well, of course you can, if you already know how it is…
“Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all the things that are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Luke 24:44 NASB Spoke – Yeshua followed the teaching technique of the rabbis. He never…
The record of the genealogy of Jesus the ]Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham: Matthew 1:1 NASB Record – By now you certainly know that Matthew purposely altered the genealogy of Yeshua to fit the Gematria numerical arrangement of the word “David.” The fact that he did this isn’t too surprising. What is more…
so that, just as it is written: “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:31 NASB As it is written – What happens to a civilization when the foundations of common expectation are crumbling? What shifts in public consciousness occur when the rule of law is shattered, when no one trusts…
