Tag Archives: Hebrew

LEARING ABOUT A FALSE IDOL (RIOT)

September 14, 2022UncategorizedChrist, Colossus, Diana, Ephesus, fight, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greece, greek, Hebrew, idol, idols, jesus, Jesus Christ, merchants, Mother of a riot, paul, Philon, prayed, pyramids, Religion, Rhodes, roman, Romans, Seven Wonders of the World, silversmith, statue, temple, worried, worship idols, worshippingabarkley8

Paul is too successful in Ephesus-at least as far as the idol-making lobbyists are concerned. There are Seven Wonders of the World. But the most beautiful, according to one writer who said he saw all seven, is a temple in Ephesus dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis. Romans call her Diana.

“I have seen the walls and hanging gardens of ancient Babylon, the statue of Olympian Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the mighty work of the high pyramids, and the tombs of Mausolus,” wrote the Greek scientist Philon in the 200s BC. “But when I saw the temple at Ephesus rising to the clouds, all these other wonders were put in the shade.”

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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE (BASIC CLOTHING)

August 21, 2022Uncategorizedbasic, basic clothing, Christ, clothes, clothing, customs, garments, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's armour, greek, Greek names, Hebrew, jesus, Jesus Christ, Luke, manners, manners and customs, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, poor, Sabbathabarkley8

Clothes were not easy to come by for most people and were very costly. The poor had only the clothes they stood up in. It was therefore realistic to trade a person for a pair of shoes (Amos 2:6), and it was quite revolutionary for John Baptist to tell people to give away spare coats (Luke 3:11). It is therefore interesting to see that in their codification of the law in the first

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (SABAOTH)

August 21, 2022Uncategorized1 samuel, armies, definition, definition of the day, God's place, greek, Heaven, heavenly bodies, Hebrew, hosts, Israel, jehovah-sabaoth, Lord of Hosts, power, powerful, present people, Sabaoth, Sabbath, YaHWeHabarkley8

Transliteration of Hebrew, meaning “hosts, armies, heavenly bodies,” Part of a divine title, “Lord of Host,” variously interpreted as Lord of Israel’s armies (cp. 1 Sam 17:45); the stars; members of Yahweh’s heavenly court or council; a comprehensive title for all beings, heavenly and earthly; an intensive title describing God as all powerful. Interestingly, the title does not

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (JONAH 1:1-17)

June 1, 2022UncategorizedAfraid, Amittai, belly of fish, cast lots, Christ, fish, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, great, great fish, Hebrew, jesus, Jesus Christ, jonah, Joppa, Lord, Lot, Matthew, new testament, nineveh, Old Testament, Pray, prayed, presence, Scripture, scritpure of the day, scritpures, sea, sea monster, sleep, sleeping, slept, Tarshiah, tempestuous, thrown into the sea, vowabarkley8

1.Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

²Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

³But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (EZER)

May 23, 2022Uncategorized1 Chronicles, Christ, David, definition, definition of the day, definitions, Edom, Egypt, Ephraim, ezer, Gad, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Hebrew, Holy Bible, Horite, Jacob, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, nehemiah, new testament, Old Testament, Palestine, political, Seir, templeabarkley8

English spelling of two Hebrew names with different spelling and meanings. The first Hebrew meaning is “gathering” or “pile.” Ezer was a leader in Edom and a descendant of Esau (Gen 36:21,27,30). He was a Horite and lived in Seir or Edom. The second Hebrew meaning is “help” or “hero.” 1. Descendant of Judah (1 Chron 4:4) in the clan of Caleb. 2. Son of Ephraim and

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WHAT DOES “FELLOWSHIP” MEAN?

April 25, 2022UncategorizedChrist, Chrstians, communion, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, Hebrew, jesus, Jesus Christ, koinonia, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, One Church, one faith, one fellowshipabarkley8

“Fellowship” translates the Greek word koinonia, meaning association, communion, and close relationship. It implies participation in a mutual task and sharing possessions. In Christ, believers are able to enjoy this kind of intimacy with God and with fellow Christians.

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SCRIPUTRES OF THE DAY (ACTS 21:26-36)

September 22, 2021Uncategorizedacts, arrested in the temple, ascertain, Asia, Christ, city, cry, Disciples, dragged, ephesian, Faith, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, Hebrew, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jew, kill, killed, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, paul, Roamns, Scripture, scripture of the day, scriptures, seven, seven days, temple, Trophimus, trust, turth, vowabarkley8

²⁶Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.

²⁷And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TAX COLLECTOR PT1)

September 20, 2021Uncategorized20 percent, abusers, alcohol, business, Christ, connotations, dishonest, everyday life in bible times, feared, fruit, gluttons, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Gospel, Gospels, grain, greek, half-shekel, Hebrew, herd, inheritances taxes, Jesus Christ, Jew, jews, Leviticus, Luke, manner, Matthew, oil, Old Testament, pagans, pay, picture, produce, Promised land, prostitiutes, public sinners, region, regions, Romans, sanctuary, Sin, sinned, sinner, sixty-five years, state, state taxes, system, tax collector, tax farming, two drachma, wineabarkley8

During the Roman era, tax collectors and the manner in which taxes were collected evolved and varied from one region to the next. Here we offer a general picture of the process that will allow us to appreciate the role tax collectors played in the Gospels. Taxes were paid to both the temple and the state, each of which established its own tax code without consideration of the other. First-century Jews paid a religious tithe of their produce, herd, and flock (Lev 27:30-32); they were also required to pay the half-shekel or two-drachma tax for sanctuary upkeep (Exod 30:13; Matt 17:24). The state demanded taxes that included a poll tax levied on males fourteen to sixty-five years of age and females twelve to sixty-five, real estate tax, customs tax collected at road and harbor stations, a tax on produce that amounted to 10 percent on grain and 20 percent on wine, fruit, and oil, a 1 percent income tax, and sales and inheritance taxes.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (MONEY CHANGERS)

September 10, 2021Uncategorized20 percent, 300 percent, altar, animals, animals sacrifices, changers, Christ, cities, city, commission, definition, definition of the day, foreign, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, Hebrew, invest, invested, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jew, Jewish, John, Kermotistes, kollubistes, loaned, Luke, Matthew, money, money changers, new testament, Old Testament, origin, pay, sell, Semitic, Semitic origin, shekel, small change, sold animals, table, temple, temple tax, trapetzites, vendorsabarkley8

Persons whose profession was to sell or exchange Roman or other moneys for Jewish money acceptable in the temple worship. In NT times regions and cities issued their own money. This caused Jews of the Dispersion, those who lived outside of Judea, to bring many kinds of money to Jerusalem. To help visitors change money into that acceptable in Jerusalem, money changers set up tables in the temple court of the Gentiles. Syrian silver coins were the money of Jerusalem then, and worshipers used them to pay their temple tax of a half shekel and to buy sacrifices for the altar.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (INN)

September 6, 2021Uncategorizedanimals, building, camp, camping, camping place, Christ, definition of the day, dwellings, family, first century, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, ground, Hebrew, Innkeeper, jeremiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Joshua, journey, lodging place, Mark, mary, Matthew, new testament, no room at the Inn, OT, passages, piece, presence, public, public inn, public inns, roman, shelter, shelters, smooth skinned, spring, virgin maryabarkley8

Different kinds of shelters or dwellings. In the OT the Hebrew word translated “inn” or “lodging place” might refer to a camping place for an individual (Jer 9:2), a family on a journey (Exod 4:24), an entire caravan (Gen 42:27; 43:21), or an army (Josh 4:3,8). In these passages (with the possible exception of the reference in Jeremiah) the presence of a building is not implied. Often the reference is only to a convenient piece of ground near a spring. It is doubtful that inns in the sense of public inns with a building existed in OT times.

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