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1. Figures Of Speech
(Category)
...  is a great subject! Begin with the introduction and study the tables next. Then seek more information under the Specific Figures section.  ...
Created on 29 November -0001
2. Cheerful Givers by George Mueller
(Articles by George Mueller)
... increased my ability to give more and more; until at last God has been pleased, in the riches of His grace, to condescend to use a poor worthless worm like me, and has entrusted me year by year with very ...
Created on 24 March 2017
3. Establishment of the Offering
(Book Excerpts)
... Lord, Yahweh. The end of the week might imply that it was on the seventh day, however it appears to be a more general idiom. Genesis 4:2-4: And she continued to bear his brother, Abel. And Abel was ...
Created on 31 January 2017
4. What God Did Beforehand
(Articles by Jan Magiera)
... about it. Part of the marking out was our free will. It is only that God is all-knowing so he knew what we would choose. The next use of qedam in Ephesians 1 shows more about God’s knowledge beforehand. ...
Created on 31 January 2017
5. Table of Figures and Emphasis
(Figures Of Speech)
... - same word has more than one usage. 6 Antonomasia Name Change Meaning Change of proper name for appellative or vice versa Name Description takes place ...
Created on 13 January 2017
6. Samples of Figures of Speech from the Sermon on the Mount
(Figures Of Speech)
... that the following phrase is like direct speech. There are many types of Repetition, the closer the word is, the more it is emphasized:   5:37 – “yes, yes, and no, no” called epizeuxis, means to consider ...
Created on 07 January 2017
7. Appendix 2 from Aramaic Peshitta New Testament
(Figures Of Speech)
... for the points of comparison. Repetition – The word that is repeated is emphasized. The closer the repetition, or the more frequently it is used, the greater is the degree of emphasis. Meaning – Although ...
Created on 07 January 2017
8. Appendix 6 Companion Bible Figures of Speech
(Figures Of Speech)
...  to the literal meaning of the words; but it is more true to their real sense, and truer to the truth.     Figures are never used but for the sake of emphasis. They can never, therefore, be ignored. Ingnor ...
Created on 07 January 2017
9. Leopards in the "Pride of Jordan"
(Everyday Life in Holy Land)
... , and Galilee on the west, and the still loftier mountains of Moab, Gilead, and Bashan on the east, unreached by the cool, moisture-laden breezes from the Mediterranean Sea, it is a very hot region, mo ...
Created on 14 December 2016
10. Paranomasia
(Figures Of Speech)
... . Matt 18:12,13: If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray (wekhad minnehon taey) And if so be that he find it … he rejoices (khadey) more over that sheep than of the ninety-ni ...
Created on 19 November 2015
11. The Good Portion
(Articles by Jan Magiera)
"You're just a worry wart!" Did anybody ever call you that? Well, I've called myself that a lot of times! Not anymore. Perhaps this may be a simple topic, because I've known for a long time that the B ...
Created on 05 November 2015
12. Signs in the Gospel of John
(Teaching Series)
... on I Thessalonians for more explanation.) The phrase "Son of Man" is a very specific title which is given to Jesus Christ to show his authority to judge the world, especially at the resurrection. Joh ...
Created on 12 March 2015
13. Stew Less, Pray more
(Aramaic Word Pictures)
STEW LESS, PRAY MORE Sunday Teaching September 21, 2014 We should not put all our problems and trials in a big "stew pot" and simmer them endlessly. But we can "count it all joy" when we realize th ...
Created on 25 September 2014
14. Reconciliation
(Aramaic Insight)
... t reconciliation is all about. It’s more than just eating the food, it’s what eating the food in the pasture does for us. It quiets us; it refreshes us; it restores us. We are led to a place of refreshmen ...
Created on 25 June 2014
15. PDF Files of Bible Customs
(Bible Customs)
These files are from Google Books. They are all in the public domain. There are many more to download from Google, but these are ones I recommend.   Bible Animals by Rev. J. G. Wood Being a Description ...
Created on 06 June 2014
16. Figures of Speech in Ephesians (ISV)
(Figures Of Speech)
... all the fullness[106] of God. 20Now to the one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according to the power that is working among[107] us—21to him be glory in the church and in Christ ...
Created on 02 June 2014
17. Promise of God
(Aramaic Insight)
... This is noteworthy because in the comparison of the two languages, the majority of the time there is more than one Greek word for a single Aramaic word. When the reverse is true, it is time to find out ...
Created on 29 May 2014
18. more Than Conquerors
(Aramaic Word Pictures)
MORE THAN CONQUERORS Sunday Teaching August 25, 2013 Romans 8 declares that we are more than conquerors and this victory is based on how God put "implements in our open hand." Some of these implement ...
Created on 26 March 2014
19. The Balanced Walk
(Book Excerpts)
... by itself sufficient to produce a more than abundant life? We must seek the answers we need from the written Word of God and act by wisdom in order to live a victorious life in Christ. Knowledge by itself ...
Created on 16 April 2013
20. Aramaic Word Pictures Introduction
(Book Excerpts)
... rd – owner, someone overseeing This book will be an explanation of the root action pictures for many of the more difficult concepts in the Bible. We will begin with the words as used in  ...
Created on 18 November 2012
21. Four Steps to Loving Relationships
(Articles by Jan Magiera)
... they can continue to look outward and be even more effective in serving in the body of Christ, hand in hand.   FACE TO FACE   In this step, the couple turns to face each other.  There are still ...
Created on 28 March 2012
22. Jeremiah: The Calling of a Prophet
(Articles by Jan Magiera)
...  God, but God was there to back him up and deliver Jeremiah out of every situation.   Receiving Revelation in Pictures   Jeremiah 1:11-12: Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah ...
Created on 14 February 2012
23. The Unsearchable Riches of Christ
(Articles by E. W. Bullinger)
... 3:8? None can sing more heartily, or truly, than ourselves— “How vast the treasures we possess In Thee, O Lord, our righteousness; All things are ours in Christ Thy Son, With whom Thy love hath ...
Created on 25 January 2012
24. The Royal Road to Holiness
(Articles by E. W. Bullinger)
... And so it was.  For he goes on to ask: 7.  Will the Lord cast off for ever?  And will he be favourable no more? 8.  Is His mercy clean gone for ever?  Doth His promise fail for evermore? 9.  Hath ...
Created on 19 December 2011
25. An Hour With George Mueller
(Articles by George Mueller)
... is something merely to see a man by whom God has accomplished a mighty work: it is more to hear the tones of his voice; far greater than either is the privilege of being brought into immediate contact ...
Created on 30 November 2011
26. Behold! What Manner of Love
(Articles by E. W. Bullinger)
... to its origin.  Everlasting as to its duration.  To Israel He says: “I have loved thee with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3).  How much more can this be said of those “in Christ.” What can we say ...
Created on 28 November 2011
27. Food for the Inner Man
(Articles by George Mueller)
... as far as I know, the benefit of which I have not lost, though now…more than forty years have since passed away. The point is this: I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business ...
Created on 22 November 2011
28. The "Treasure" the "Vessel" and the "Power"
(Articles by E. W. Bullinger)
... ve nothing that we have not received (1 Corinthians 4:7). Whoever the agent may be, whether the greatest or the least according to human reckoning, he is still only a “vessel,” more or less filled with Go ...
Created on 25 October 2011
29. Praises in the Psalms
(Articles by Jan Magiera)
... se the Lord.”  The first use of yadah in Psalms gives more insight into the depth of the word. Psalm 7:17: I will praise [yadah] the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the n ...
Created on 10 August 2011
30. Prayer
(Articles by E. W. Bullinger)
... that we have here. Babes cry! And no plea is so strong with a mother. It is more so with him who hearkens to the cry of His people; the groan of the oppressed in the pit of corruption; the moan of those ...
Created on 18 July 2011
31. All in All
(Articles by E. W. Bullinger)
... a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ—no more children—but speaking the truth in love may grow up into Him, “all things” who is the Head, Christ (Ephesians 4:13-15)  ...
Created on 01 July 2011
32. Practical Power of Our Hope
(Articles by E. W. Bullinger)
... endure” it! Never mind.—“Preach the Word.” Are we not to seek for something they will endure? No!  “Preach the Word,” and all the more simply, earnestly, and faithfully because we know that men will ...
Created on 27 June 2011
33. The Fig the Olive and the Vine
(Articles by E. W. Bullinger)
... have been done more for that Vineyard? (Isaiah 5:4-7)  “The vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the House of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant.  He looked for judgment but behold oppression, ...
Created on 27 June 2011
34. The Walk of Our Life
(Articles by Jan Magiera)
... ourselves is singularly apropos. If we look for a moment at what a physical, literal walk is not, it will be easy to see this. A walk is not a run. It is slower, more steady, where there is plenty of time ...
Created on 26 June 2011
35. Peeps into Palestine - The Sais
(Bible Customs)
... peculiar phrases and expressions of Holy Scripture. But more than this, Rare Hebrew Words Occur in Arabic the common Arabic one hears now from the lips of the ignorant fellahheen, the modern peasantry ...
Created on 17 June 2011
36. Boast in the Lord
(Articles by Jan Magiera)
... to ministers that help them, but it is never to be ALL they have, so they have nothing left.  If you are feeling “eaten up” and have nothing more to give, check this point.  The opposite is that the minister ...
Created on 09 June 2011
37. Freely - Without a Cause
(Articles by Jan Magiera)
... offence, so also is the free gift.  For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. The  ...
Created on 09 June 2011
38. Abraham Believed God
(Articles by E. W. Bullinger)
... hout any human intervention whatsoever. Religion versus Christianity There is scarcely a point on which Religion is more opposed to Christianity. Religion makes the word of God of none effect by its  ...
Created on 03 June 2011
39. "Us" in Ephesians 1
(Aramaic Insight)
... near to God at anytime. And by His almighty power, He will do more than we ask. Ephesians 3:12 in whom we have (lit., there is to US) boldness and access in the confidence of his faith Ephesians 3:20 ...
Created on 02 June 2011
40. Watered Gardens from Peeps into Palestine
(Bible Customs)
... to the important fact, that, in the rainless land of the Pharaohs, farm-culture needs irrigation, natural or artificial, in the same way as garden-culture requires it in the more favoured climate of Palestine, ...
Created on 31 May 2011
41. Beholding
(Articles by E. W. Bullinger)
... and Christ - the mirror- whom they behold is reflected on and in them, and thus, without an effort, they are more and more “conformed to His image.” 2.       Theomai Means to behold as in a theater,  ...
Created on 30 May 2011
42. Figures of Speech by A.E. Knoch
(Figures Of Speech)
...  simply cannot be taken as they stand. “God is light” is not an actual fact. Literally stated, He is, in the spiritual sphere, in some ways like light in the physical realm. But how much more forceful an ...
Created on 28 May 2011
43. A.E. Knoch Figures of Speech Introduction
(Figures Of Speech)
... ily become acquainted with figures and so that he can examine and verify the facts. Something like a concordance seems to be the best implement. Meanwhile we hope to help by indicating the more prominent fig ...
Created on 28 May 2011
44. The 'Atal or Burden Bearer
(Everyday Life in Holy Land)
... as powerless to deliver himself, which made life intolerable by its weight, and which, if he fell under it, must kill him. Our blessed Lord has a plain and even more graphic reference to the toil of th ...
Created on 28 May 2011
45. Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
(Everyday Life in Holy Land)
... s on the otherwise obscure and inexplicable Scriptural allusions to shepherd life.  "These wildernesses abound, for the most part, in caves and hiding places, which render them the more insecure, since s ...
Created on 28 May 2011
46. Strange Figures by James Neil
(Figures Of Speech)
... OF JERUSALEM as a striking instance of this delightful feature; and contrast them with the coarse, hoarse, meaningless cries of our far more highly educated street hawkers.  Here comes the cake‑seller, ...
Created on 10 May 2011
47. Sequence of Events of the End Times
(Book Excerpts)
... l enable the believer to video the Hope in a clearer way in his mind. Another reason to present this topic is that the more one has the Hope and all the details of it rooted in the depth of his hear ...
Created on 09 May 2011
48. Two Words For Righteousness
(Aramaic Insight)
... and being freed from blame.  There is a catch phrase, “just as if I’d never sinned,” which sums up the meaning.  Righteousness, however, has been much more difficult to define.  This is possibly due to ...
Created on 15 April 2011
49. The Power Of Words
(Articles by Jan Magiera)
... he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. Psalm 52:2-4: Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. ...
Created on 15 April 2011
50. How To Keep Unity
(Aramaic Insight)
... more thoroughly by looking at the root action.  Unity comes from a verb root in Aramaic that means simply “to turn towards a place or person with interest or affection.”  An intensive form of the verb ...
Created on 15 April 2011
51. What's Your Excuse?
(Articles by Jan Magiera)
... “with one consent to excuse themselves” from the invitation to the marriage feast. Their excuses were that they had some other more important things to do. They were too busy. The first one said that he ...
Created on 15 April 2011
52. 8. Salvation -- Deliverance
(Sermons / Word Pictures on Salvation)
... experienced, as it lines up more with the definitions and scope of the word. The action behind the verb yasha can be seen in its Arabic counterpart: to make wide or make sufficient. It would be in ...
Created on 24 April 2017
53. 7. Progress of Faith -- Reliance, Hope and Waiting
(Sermons / Word Pictures on Salvation)
... as “source (of life, water), to bring forth, fullness” more along the lines of the picture of breasts or a well where the lines are curved instead of straight. This meaning makes more sense to me. The ...
Created on 14 February 2017
54. 6. Progress of Faith -- Two Words for Trust
(Sermons / Word Pictures on Salvation)
... have it. After this explanation of the word pictures, you will know more about how to explain this rather difficult concept. We begin with a word for trust in Hebrew: chasah. Chasah is another “fence ...
Created on 14 February 2017
55. 5. The Fence Words: Compassion and Love
(Sermons / Word Pictures on Salvation)
...  the fence are the still waters of Psalm 23. The rest and refreshment of quiet peace is there also. But that is more for another day….  ...
Created on 09 February 2017
56. 4. The Fence Words: Mercy and Lovingkindness
(Sermons / Word Pictures on Salvation)
... " Chen is usually translated grace or favour, but I like to translate it as mercy, because I believe that communicates more of the heart of the word. The fence that gives life, or protects life is t ...
Created on 09 February 2017
57. 2. Word Picture for God
(Sermons / Word Pictures on Salvation)
God is a generic name in English for the one whom we worship. If we understand what his name means in Hebrew and Aramaic, we will be able to describe him and also our relationship with him more clearly. ...
Created on 03 February 2017

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