Since I wasn’t a driver, I couldn’t add my name, but the word “mitzvah” was always ___ in my thoughts after I went upstairs. It’s a Hebrew word that means “to do a good deed”. But according to my grandmother, it also had another meaning. This was the one she was alway...
In the biblical context, blessings from the LORD are often associated with both material and spiritual abundance. The Hebrew word for "blessing" (ברכה, berakah) implies a gift or favor from God, which is not merely about wealth but encompasses well-being and fulfillment. In the ...
Since I wasn't a driver,I couldn't add my name,but the word "mitzvah" was always(2)___in my thoughts after I went upstairs.It's a Hebrew word that means "to do a good deed".But according to my grandmother,it also had another meaning.This was the one she was always (3)___...
This word was chosen in Old English bibles to translate Latinbenedicereand Greekeulogein, both of which have a ground sense of "to speak well of, to praise," but were used in Scripture to translate Hebrewbrk"to bend (the knee), worship, praise, invoke blessings." L.R. Palmer ("The...
The Hebrew word for blessing isberakahfrom the rootB-R-K, which means bothblessedandto kneelorbend the knee. What a lovely word picture to remind us that as we seek God’s blessings for others, including children, we are to stay humble as if we are kneeling before our Almighty Father,...
God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM…thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.The LORD (יהוהYAHWEH in Hebrew)…has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations. ...
”Since I wasn’t a driver, I couldn’t add my name, but the word “mitzvah” was always___in my thoughts after I went upstairs. It’s a Hebrew word that means “to do a good deed”. But according to my grandmother, it also had another meaning. This was the one she was always...
Let them understand.The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.Footnotes Hosea 14:1 In Hebrew texts 14:1-9 is numbered 14:2-10. Hosea 14:2 Or offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls Hosea 14:8 Or Hebrew; Septuagint What more has ...
When we survey the ways Jesus and the apostles interacted with the Hebrew Bible, it becomes clear that they had grown up in the midst of an entire culture that saw the Hebrew Bible in a certain way. Something the later biblical authors do all the time is set up their writing in a way...
Chapters in this book (15) Frontmatter Acknowledgments Contents Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Parallels to Genesis 12:3a 3. The niphal in Hebrew 4. Parallels to Genesis 12:3b with the niphal 5. Blessing 6. Genesis 12:3 7. The hithpael of √ברך 8. Parallels...