Today’s Word
Nailed Together
And showing mercy to thousands of those who love me, and keep my commandments. Exodus 20:6 Jewish World translation Love Me, and keep – Back to the pictographs. Here is the phrase “of those who love Me” in pictographic Hebrew. Once again the word begins with the preposition le signifying “control” or “authority.” It…
Billboard Idolatry
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain. Exodus 20:7 NASB In vain – In Paleo-Hebrew the expression lashshawe’ is: The Paleo-Hebrew pictograph combines the prefixed Hebrew root sh-w with the preposition le and the definite article…
Warrior Woman
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. Proverbs 31:10 ESV Excellent – Perhaps a bit better than “virtuous,” the ESV translation makes an attempt to teach that this particular wife is not measured simply on the basis of her morals. But the Hebrew word is far more than our…
Trans-slay-tions
The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham: Matthew 1:1 NASB Jesus the Messiah – What do we do with this expression from the NASB? Oh, we might look at the footnote too. That says, “Heb Yeshua (Joshua), meaning The Lord saves.” More confusion. Let’s be…
Spirit Confusion
“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” Luke 11:13 NASB Spirit – “The usage of the Word pneuma in Greek literature reveals nothing comparable to the Hebrew ruakh for ‘human spirit’ and…
The Trinity: Boundary Conditions
because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead. Acts 17:31 NASB Appointed – Perhaps Paul really didn’t mean what his words seem to say. After all, how could God…
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