Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
Psalm 40:12 (KJV) ” For innumerable evils have compassed me about:
mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to
look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my
heart faileth me.”
Is it possi…
Isaiah 34:14 in the Masoretic Text is the following:
גְשׁוּ צִיִּים אֶת-אִיִּים, וְשָׂעִיר עַל-רֵעֵהוּ יִקְרָא; אַךְ-שָׁם הִרְגִּיעָה לִּילִית, וּמָצְאָה לָהּ מָנוֹח
Here, לִּילִית is supposedly the only known mention of “lilith” in …
νικάω … 1. intr. be victor, prevail, conquer… 2. trans. conquer, overcome, vanquish…
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Arndt, W., Gingrich, F. W., Danker, F. W., & Bauer, W. (1979). In A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian lit…
I hope we can tolerate a translation question into another language besides English, especially since some people here know Hebrew. It is even the 1st language for some here.
אַהֲבָה is the most common word for love in Hebrew, but it also…
Professor Israel Knohl is the Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Biblical studies at the Hebrew University and a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He recently sat down with Dr. Yeshaya Gruber to talk about his new book Th…
I’m attempting to work with two different sources of Hebrew data that may have parsed the Hebrew using a programmatic algorithm, and, in comparing the two sources, I came across an issue concerning Strong’s number H5980.
It appears to be a…
In Genesis 6:20 we read that God told Noah to keep three categories of animals
Flying creatures
Animals
Creeping things
What confuses me is the word בְּהֵמָה translated as "animals." Lexicon says that it is usually in reference…
One way of reading Gen 1:1 with its immediate context is that it is part of the first day of creation
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of t…
Jeremiah 50:2 ASV
Declare ye among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.
So what can be deduced from the Hebrew verb as to the creation process? Instantaneous fiat event, or long drawn out process? Or an obscure meaning, indefinite as to time?
Genesis 6:4 (NIV)Emphasis added
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
Is there an E…