These questions have a potential role in understanding the historicity of this tradition, as there is consensus that Matthew was not initially written in Hebrew and then translated into Greek, as there is no evidence of translation, but there is evidence that it was written very well in literary...
The word "attend" is translated from the Hebrew "paqad," which can mean to visit, care for, or take note of. The imagery of "every morning" suggests a continual, daily care and concern from God. This reflects the biblical understanding of God's faithfulness and His new mercies each day...
No one can stop him or say to him, ‘What do you mean by doing these things?’English Standard Versionall the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his ...
What Does "Wait on the Lord" Mean? What did Isaiah, and David, and other authors of the Bible mean when they wrote those words: “wait upon the Lord”? The Hebrew word Isaiah uses for “wait” isQavah.It means “to wait, look for, hope, expect.” ...
One, Huff said that the great Isaiah scroll in the Jerusalem Museum was word-for-word identical to the Hebrew Masoretic Text. This is a Dead Sea Scroll. Since the appearance, Huff has said apparently that when he said word-for-word identical he didn’t mean word-for-word identical. But...
I will not get into details, but it reminded me of Jesus’ prayer in John 17.15-16, “I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.” What does it mean to be of ...
Now this does not mean that God wants us to suffer now: 33 For He does not afflict willingly, Nor grieve the children of men (Lamentations 3:33). For theApostle Johnwas inspired to write: 2 "I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health" (3 John 2). ...
“He didn’t mean it literally!” someone will tell me, “it is just a way of expressing love.”“You’d have to be obtuse not to realize that,” another will say. I agree, of course; this was as obvious to me as it was to everyone else. It is so obvious, in fact, that ...
mechitza– the divider between men and women in Orthodox synagogues. It can be a curtain, glass, an upstairs/downstairs thing, woodwork, whatever. megillah– the books which comprise the “Writings” part of TaNaKh (otherwise known as the Bible, folks). This is Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, ...
The Jewish Bible is known in Hebrew as the Tanakh, an acronym of the three sets of books which comprise it:the Pentateuch (Torah), the Prophets (Nevi'im) and the Writings (Ketuvim). What does tractate mean? A tractate isa written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject...