So Ebed Melech took the men with him and went to the royal palace, to a room under the treasury. He took rags and torn clothes from there and lowered them with ...

11:9 Rejoice, young man, while you are young,. and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of ...

On the other hand, this Hebrew phrase may be nuanced “former things” or “earlier things” (HALOT 1168 s.v. ן(וֹ)רִאשֹׁ). This is adopted by some translations: “ ...

Walter Kaiser labeled the three things promised Abram as an heir, a heritage, and an inheritance. ... David Clines called them posterity, relationship with God, ...

Let us go a three-day journey into the desert so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, so that he does not strike us with plague or the sword.” 5:4 The ...

The related Aramaic root שׁוף means “to be thirsty; to be parched.” The Hebrew verb is used of “gasping” for breath, like a woman in the travail of childbirth ( ...

The Hebrew root המה is related to Aramaic המא (“to roar; to be agitated”). The Hebrew verb הָמָה has a basic two-fold range of meanings: (1) literal: “to make a ...

Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians will live. They will escape with their lives.'” 38:3 They had also heard him say, “The Lord says, ' ...