Hebrew Word Study: Love - Hebrew Lesson #4

[Music] there is a three-page Hebrew handout that will be available it's a lesson on the schewe those are those two dots went above the other and it's it's mostly some grammar rules and the other part of the lesson is English diphthong and Hebrew diphthongs explaining how it works I'm gonna make these available I'm not going to walk you through this lesson I'm gonna make it available you will definitely need the lesson on syllables to do this lesson so it's three pages and we'll make that available to you also I prepared something that I think those of you who are working on just the alphabet I might find fun and interesting so there'll be two pages posted as well as tempted to only post one they're two of the same it's Psalm 37 it's completely in Hebrew you to ask why Psalm 37 because Psalm 37 I've highlighted in pink is every letter beginning letter it's an acrostic Psalm so it gives you the letters of the alphabet there is one letter missing so it'd be interesting to see if you can find which letter is missing there is a letter missing in the whole alphabet actually there's there's really two but you'll figure it out so we'll see if you actually have done your alphabet homework and so I remind you and I'm sure you those who have been following along Hebrew is reading the opposite of English so although it has 37 and 1 here it actually starts on this side of the page so it's reading this way going from right to left so see if you can identify will post both of those up for you I'm tempted to just post this one first and a few days later will give you this coloured one so that'll be available for you as well that's just an exercise you keep practicing your alphabet but tonight I wanted to spend a little time because I had mentioned it in passing I wanted to spend a little time which I'll also make available for you just so you can keep it in a binder or something it's a it's a word study it's a Hebrew word study on a few Hebrew words that are being translated love or derivatives or that which is interpreted as or has the meaning of and there's a few in fact there are nine here they are the most common words being translated but I did want to point out to you the reason why I did this obviously is that Psalm 91 Psalm 91 verse 14 the word that are highlighted yesterday which is her sock that word which is to cling to cleave and I gave you some of the definitions of that word the subtleties and the nuances of describing some of these different words really help paint a picture and then I wanted to at least point out why learning the vowel points is extremely important so I just want to mention a few of these I'm going to give you I'll just read off a few of the divers concepts that and if you're going to download this it'll be available to you the first one of these words aha Rajib or i --have which is to signify love that which a person delights earnestly or desires this word implies the mind is having fixed itself on an object or a person occurring 140 times in the old testament used for love affection pure and impure divine and human and I've given you a few scripture references that you can look up to see how it looks in the King James it may not read love it may read in other words so you'll have to look at the scripture references another word dode which is very strange the bulk of this word is being translated in the English as uncle paternal relative but the bulk of its occurrences are in I've put it down as canticles Song of Solomon which is almost every reference is beloved and if you've read through the Song of Solomon you know that there's a lot of interesting language in there so you can kind of understand that there may be some interesting use of this word in a more arrows way alright we navigated that one good third word is kabob to cherish to hide in the bosom to love fervently Kindle to be set on fire in fact this particular word the Aramaic translates it as to make love but it's reference of Deuteronomy 33 3 is the only one of its kind in the Old Testament so I've given you the scripture reference the next word Muhammad pleasant lovely desire of the eyes to take pleasure in to desire to wish to attempt to entice most often uses a verb often for people or things that are visible to the eye that gives you an idea of what type of love that might be maybe he said which I've mentioned many times before usually translated loving kindness mercy it is so large of a subject matter the word is not enough room to define it if you want to look it up I've given you the brown driver Briggs so you can look it up in the Strong's it's so big a word three letters so big it's impossible it would take the pages but 246 times it occurs in the Old Testament half of those occurrences are in the Psalms of course our word that we encountered in Psalm 91 verse 14 huzzah or hi shocked to be attached to love pressed together to hang on to connect to join to unite and I'm going to come back to that word because I want a couple things I want to point out three more words this word is a gob to be charmed delight in in order an affectionate inordinate affection or lust the bulk of these occurrences are in Ezekiel and they're usually referencing God's people so it suggests that these are people that are worshiping something other than God and God does not like it you know I think if we could really make English equations to these words we'd be very surprised at what they might represent and there was a holier-than-thou people would be like oh because it's it's God did not mince words I'm telling you there are certain things he did say pretty clearly just that it's in another language so you can get away with it better about home this word is only used one time and the call state and that is in Psalm 18 and verse 1 I'm going to come back to that there's two words I want to talk about our our word out of Psalm 91 and this word in Psalm 18 and the last word which is Ray which is to suggest a friend companion or fellow but they are tied into some type of love or affection now our word shock actually kind of interesting in in the references where it occurs as plain as day our song and then elsewhere I'll give you a few references there there on the papers I don't want to I don't want you to spin there just want you to hear and you can look them up for yourselves but for example in Deuteronomy 77 where it says the Lord did not set his love upon you nor choose you because you were more in number than any people for you were the fewest of all people but because the Lord loved you and that's a different word it's kind of funny there's multiple words in Deuteronomy in this whole passage for love being used and because he would keep he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your father's the LORD hath brought you out of with a mighty hand redeemed you out of the house of bond men and so forth so in Deuteronomy 7 it says the Lord did not set his love his his his cleaving clinging love upon you and I find that interesting because that word occurs there and a few other places but not too many occurrences and the rarity of this word I think I have it down all but maybe one two three four five six six that I wrote that are are evident there may be perhaps less than ten occurrences of this word in the Old Testament but to get a real concept that God never waste words let's do this let's do this right let's see somewhere in here there it is right before my eyes I have this word our word out of Psalm 91 as brown driver Briggs 365 let me turn there and I looked up of course the word this is why I'm teaching you about the vowels because if you're not careful you may be translating something and it may have a different meaning all the while it's important that when you're looking up the lexical use of a word that you do check what occurs before you word and after your word even with the changes of vowel points it will help you to understand perhaps the development of the word sometimes a semantic relationship that may have developed and the vowel or consonant change that may help us to better understand the word so I'll give you a perfect case in point our word put down that Bible for a minute our word from Psalm 91 see what we got here our word looks like this see I have a head we have the shin because the dot is on the right so it's shut even though I was saying so it's sharp alright there's our word and so the definition here just as the way I've placed it with the vowel points as it appears to be attached as a verb to be attached to love to press together to desire the Aramaic to bind and then it goes on to give you the scripture references in this particular place there's one reference in Genesis I reference the sunday one reference in Genesis 34:8 which is I believe that's one of the sunsetting their love on on Dinah and just before she's raped that's where they desired her I think that's the one passage right there so if you read that just the way I've given it to you at the vowel points and then directly Ben that reference you'll find another entry in there where we have slightly different vowel points and in fact something I tried to explain the other day the last lesson which is this little accent on the top telling you that instead of the hard syllable coming at the end of the word this little diggity do over the top of the letter here tells you the emphasis is on this letter the syllable falls on this first letter this is what this symbol tells you so the entry in brown driver brig tells me this was a verb up here this first one the second one is a a noun masculine desire thing desired and they give the scripture scripture references and then something interesting happens the next entry beneath that will have an addition of evolved it will look like this it is the same related word and it has it has evolved inside of it so it's expanded we have a evolve in fact with a vowel point on the inside and it is a noun and masculinity it begins to talk about what it is it says fill it or some might pronounce it filet but its fill it or ring clasping binding a pillar of the tabernacle so I I looked up those references and I thought this was the most interesting thing see God does not waste words or vowels or anything there let's go to the first one that is referenced here and that would be if you'll turn with me to see Exodus 27 10 we'll see if that's the right one in fact while you're turning I'm gonna mark make some marks here because there's multiple references and they're not in order so we have ten and there's going to be a second one here seventeen all right so this is kind of interesting if you are looking up it's always has these interesting twists if you were looking up our word that occurred in Psalm 91 that I mentioned was in Deuteronomy 77 it appears to have a strong snubber of 28 36 and strangely enough if you were looking up this particular reference this word in my Bible which has Strong's numbers marked in it it actually tells me that the particular reference I'm going to quote right now is actually 28:36 although it is spelt like this that addition so what's happening here are the instructions that are being given for the construction and the enclosure of the tabernacle and let's start at verse 9 that shall make the court of the tabernacle for the south side south where there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of a hundred cubics long for one side in the twenty pillars thereof and the twenty sockets shall be of brass so we have brass sockets and the hooks are the pillars and they're Phillips and there's the other word right there Phillips is actually really this word which is 28 in the brown driver brig giving the Strong's number is 28 38 so Phil its is what the Kings King James is translating Phil it's likewise for the north side and length it shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass and the hooks of the pillars and their fill it's and there it is again of silver and so you're gonna get the picture if you keep reading through this passage you're going to see something quite staggering and I thought god this is this could only be God's grace that this very same word that is used for for us in Psalm 91 of clinging hanging on cleaving to God the same picture that's used in Deuteronomy 7 being addressed of how God God didn't set his love his clinging his deliverance is holding his his hanging on to us because we were great in number the same word at its root is being used here that is what holds together the binding the clasping the holding together of the brass and the silver and I thought God can't get any better than that because then this is God's house God's tabernacle but it shows you between the redemptor Redemption color of silver and the brass judgment color there is the gripping and the cleaving word right between it's almost like what holds everything together and in that pictorial framework of the colors as I was reading that I thought God is so good we know that everything in the Tabernacle had symbolism every single there was not one wasted ounce nothing was wasted in symbolism but how beautiful to use this word to show that what what keeps everything together what what is the glue and what keeps the two ends yet connected yet separate is that very same word that is the same picture of us clinging to God or God adhering or clinging to us that is what is weighed in the balance between redemption and judgment and I thought God could not get any better or were than that and not a better picture could be painted from the tabernacle using that one word so this is why I tell you having a lexicon is very handy lets you go in and reach him to see some of these beautiful pictures read otherwise and what would you read that Philips is the same word as the word that I just described is cleaving you wouldn't you wouldn't unless you were seeing it from the lexicon you wouldn't know it so when I tell you we're studying Hebrew and I'm showing you vowel points don't just think language think this is a help to reach in and see some of these pictures for yourself okay I want to give you another one so that was that was one word we looked at the other word I wanted to point out which is equally important to me he is I mentioned to you in my list out of Psalm 18 and verse 1 and I remember distinctly remember in fact it's probably one of the while I memorized a few things with dr. Scott because he he would sit and he repeated to me as he was memorizing it for you he repeated to me and so I would I'd be listening and looking at the piece of paper and looking at him as he memorized it to me because he would memorize a lot of things to be able to come and kind of put them back at you so I remember memorizing some of the some of these Hebrew verses with him and one of the words that stayed with me out of this Psalm 18 verse 1 was the word for love I will I will love the Lord our hunka I remember him and most of you who were around for that teaching kind of in graining that in our brains that that word and again I will show you the reason why I'm trying to show some of you how to use the lexicon and praying that you'll you'll get excited and motivated to do so that word that opens psalm 18 which is another word for love brown driver Brig 933 and it's on this these they're in my writing they're not very pretty but I'll make them available to eat with the rest of the stuff 933 and so what we have here again another reason why I'm trying to show some of you why learning the verbs at least understanding the form of the verbs is is important this is the only place where this verb roham is used in the call all other occurrences occur in the PL and the Puel they occur either in the intensive active or the intensive passive so some 18 is the only place where it occurs in that simple action where the psalmist is declaring I love the Lord my strength now what caught my attention in this particular instance and I'm as I said it's a word study so you have to bear with me for a minute is if you're reading let's go to a new page here or save it alright if you were reading the lexicon and I'm introducing a word really not for the sake of you learning it but to show you what happens with the lexicon and how bow appoints the vowel markings matter so this is what roham looks like I said that was brown driver Brig 933 which is actually the page number everything is done by peach number or if you're looking at the Strong's at 73 55 so the definition that's given lexically to have compassion and that is the only occurrence in the call and if you move down you'll encounter the definitions of the word and the pl the intensive active or the pou L which is the passive for example the passive of that would be to be shown compassion so in the passive you would be a recipient you would not be acting it but if you keep reading down you have an adjective for this word compassionate woman and you keep going down to the next word compassion softness gentleness all kinds of interesting names here but I want to go backwards to show you what happens just before this one word so if we took the vowel points and put them like so or as the lexicon reads okay him I wouldn't want you to see that very fast does not sound good so these two words actually belonged to the same word group these two words and please note their vowel points underneath if you remember when dr. Scott was teaching on Psalm 18 he mentioned the the roomie and that's how he translated this well effectively these vowel points give you that word for room and so if you were looking in the lexicon say well where where does this come from you would find these examples being on the same page 933 but different numbers different Strong's numbers room from the birth to go forth from the womb so you get the idea and somewhere between that word room and the word I just defined for you out of Psalm 18 for love which is compassion you might get the sense from the word that because of because of the consonants remaining the same through this pattern and you can see they are the same except the vowels change the vowels will change the meaning so in one place in Psalm 18 and verse 1 the sense would be love compassion or we might even translate in the English for a lack of a better word the bowels of compassion something that is deep from within and if we were still trying to figure out is there something more yet to this word that we can attach in terms of love we know it can be a deep love but there are many kinds of deep love I mean I have a deep love for apple pie and just think about apple pie all day long I can have a deep love for your wife or your husband or your children and that they'll all be on different levels but to really get a picture or concept of what this word carries with it you'd go back to looking what happens in the lexicon before and after if the consonants are the same even though the vowels change it will give you an idea of something within the war that is being conveyed so in this case these words room and right down if you kept reading that all that first opens the room can be the matrix child birth etc so you might carry that into the meaning of roham it says to have compassion and it would be it would be something deep from within now I reckon dr. Scott explained this and translated this word the Rumi although it carries the essence of that because of the consonants you lexically must start the words sing to have compassion and then you build around that so because somebody asked me well how would you get to the definition of Psalm 18 verse 1 as as me well that was his way of conveying something that was a love deep from within it was something that was birthed out of and I Sunday said I would analogize that in fact to something deep within that could be connected with the born-again experience I would I would take reach into the Old Testament and take some of these new and say to me that's what it it suggests there is there is a birthed love inside that as the psalmist could not have known what we know now but if we were taking it for us in the now and saying I will love thee O Lord it would definitely carry with it the sense that we now can say that with a new birth experience within us and a love that can only be understood as one who might envision another being developing inside of them which is essentially the born-again experience but somebody asked me and I said I would at least show lexically how that happens so we're always careful and I exercise caution to say go to the first word where your vowels occur and I in fact I missed a vowel here I'm sorry where your vowels occur and then if you still have not reached the full essence of the word you would take all the words which I did all the words that occur for love write them all out look up their meanings look up the words around them and then that will finally give you not only the clearest understanding of what that word means but it'll also lets you see lexically what happens around that word to give you a deeper maybe a deeper foundation so when you go back into the scripture you're not simply reading I will love the O Lord or even if you were trying to make a Scott translation I will Rumi the Rumi D or something you you really get the idea it is it is a love that comes from deep within that can only be birthed or brought forth conceived that which comes from someplace inside that's why the bowels of compassion are it's such a strange statement but it really does convey it is something from deep within so the word study tonight is primarily to highlight our word out of Psalm 91 verse 14 but it's also to give you an idea that when you read the King James many times you'll read one word love and love as you know like in the New Testament we know we've encountered this there are four words for love and the Greek two of them are constantly used one never occurs in the New Testament and one is used two or three times twice I'm sorry but the bulk of those New Testament words being agape in phileo stare again being the lesser one and eros which never occurs likewise and it gives you an idea of the concepts of these words as they are communicated by Christ by the disciples and the Apostles and so forth so these Hebrew words give you a better sense when you go back to read Psalm 91 we are not talking about a love that is necessarily birthed from within although I believe something has to come from within but essentially like the picture I gave you out of out of Exodus and the tabernacle it is something that is binding clasping clinging cleaving something that is holding together and with that beautiful picture that we just saw you really get the idea plus whatever the lexicon reveals you get a fuller picture it's not just one word it's one word in English with at least nine nine different words for Hebrew and multiple dimensions to define one word we just looked at tonight two words in fact so I'm trying to help some of you if you're trying to use the lexicon and navigate to do your own word study this word study tonight will at least give an understanding of what you would do if you were trying to compile a word study how you would organize that how you would assess the words that occur around the word you're looking at and then how to compile it together to actually go back into your text and apply it with some deeper meaning and perspective [Music] to this house

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Length: 32min 51sec (1971 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 07 2019