Category: commentary
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The Hebrew thought of “world”?
Read More →תֵּבֵל This word, tebel, #8398, means world. It is a highly “extended” word, i.e. a “poetic synonym of earth” (eretz). But it is hard to pinpoint just what the idea behind this is since it is always used in “poetic” prose. The root is יָבַל yabal, #2986, which means to conduct or bear along, as […]
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“Elijah about to come”
Read More →Are you sure you had the right translation when you read that confusing verse about Elijah [My El is Yah]? Jesus spoke in the present participle active, “is about“…. And if you are willing to take, he is Elijah, the one about to come. Matt. 11:14 literal Jesus again breaks the linguistic boundaries of time. […]
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“The Heavenly Ones are Counted Ones”
Read More →God told Abraham about Heaven and those who are born of it. And he is causing to go out אֶת-himself the Outside-ward, and is saying, `Look, now, Dual-Heavenly-ones-ward, and count the Stars, if you are able to record אֶת-them.` And he is saying to-himself, `Thus he is your seed.` Genesis 15:5 literal The Mesapharim The […]
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Not “in the twinkling of an eye” but “in a wink of an eye”
Read More →Behold a mystery-secret to you all I tell: we will not the whole sleep, however we will the whole be changed—in an indivisible-instant, in a wink of an eye, in the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised up incorruptible and we will be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:52 literal […]
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The Elect – Before Abraham, THEY ARE?
Read More →Try to imagine the statement “who was and is, and is to come” as a combination of heavenly time and earthly time in one sentence. TODAY/NOW = Who was, is, and is in the coming time Yesterday, today, and forever Jesus breaks the rules of language and tenses with the statement “before Abraham became, I […]
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Becoming Men: Reflecting on ‘הִתְאֹשָׁ֑שׁוּ’ in Isaiah 46:8
Read More →This word appears only one time in all of scripture. הִתְאֹשָׁ֑שׁוּ hitoshashu Strong’s #377. “Denominative from ‘iysh; to be a man, i.e. Act in a manly way — show (one) self a man.” Remember this one, and become men, turn back those-who-rebel upon the heart. Isaiah 46:8 RBT The verb is in the Hithpo’el form […]
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A rule or a riddle? Deuteronomy 22:5
Read More →Deuteronomy 22:5 KJV says, The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth [keli]of a man [geber], neither shall a man [geber] put on a woman’s garment [simlah]: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. We have looked at how a geber-man was a mighty man or man of valor. The […]
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An iron one sharpens an iron one
Read More →An iron-one is sharpening in [against] an iron-one; and a man is sharpening the faces of his friend. Prov 27:17 FLT “Faces” is the literal translation of the word. A plural word.The verb sharpen is in the Hiphil causative form and not the normal Qal active. The Hiphil verb means that the object, iron, causes […]
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“Hell” – A Linguistic Problem of Theological Agenda
Read More →THE DOCTRINE OF HELL is formed from a variety of very obscure verses that appear to be connected. The amount of conjecture that went into the present day understanding of “hell” is astonishing, when you see it for what it really is. The word HELL itself originated as an Anglo-saxon word of the 8th century […]
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Word analysis – “abundant”
Read More →In listing out prominent words of narratives in the prophets I came across this interesting pattern based on the Hebrew parent root רב : The Sun Sets at the End of the Journey in the Arabian Desert West #7227 adj רַב rab, רַבָּ֔ה rabbah “abundant, many” Gen. 7:11 (the deep of the abundant) #7231 verb […]