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“By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.” (Prov. 22:4)

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EMATZ – “courageous”

“Then Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and ematz (courageous), for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them…” (Deut. 31:7)

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MEH’AT - “little, few, small)

“Better is meh’at (a little) with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with trouble. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted calf with hatred.” (Proverbs 15:16-18)

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MACHSHEVOT – “thoughts, devices, plans”

“For I know the machshevot (plans) that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for peace and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.” (Jer. 29:11)

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ME’OD – Very

“And they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “The land which we passed through to spy out is a me’od me’od (very very) good land.” (Numbers 14:7)

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TZARAH – “trouble, distress”

“Though I walk in the midst of tzara (trouble), You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand will save me.” (Psalm 138:7)

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YOM SHISHI – “sixth day”

“And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were Yom Shishi (the sixth day).”

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DEVAR - “word”

“Remember the devar (word) to Your servant, upon which You have caused me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction, for Your word has given me life.” (Psalm 119:49-50)

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RACHAM – “compassion”

“Then Joseph made haste, for his racham (compassion) was stirred for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.” (Genesis 43:30)

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KETORET – “incense”

“Let my prayer be counted as ketoret (incense) before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!” (Psalm 141:2)

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DODI – “my beloved”

“I was asleep but my heart was awake. A voice! Dodi (my beloved) was knocking: ‘Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one! For my head is drenched with dew, my locks with the damp of the night.” (Song of Songs 5:2)

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DAVAK – “to cling, cleave, stick to”

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave (davak) unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24)

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ISHA – “woman”

“And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into an isha (woman) and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman because she was taken out of Man.”(Genesis 2:22-24)

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NASSA – “to test, try, prove, tempt”

“Examine me, O LORD, and try me; test (nassa) my mind and my heart. For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.” (Psalm 26:2-3)

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CHUPPAH – “bridal chamber, canopy”

“It is like a groom coming from his chuppah (bridal chamber); it rejoices like an athlete running a course.” (Psalm 19:5)

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GO’EL – “redeemer”

“So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the
LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son. Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a Go’el (redeemer)…(Ruth 4:13-14)

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BOAZ - “swiftness”

“So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in to her. And the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed is the LORD
who has not left you without a redeemer today… (Ruth 4:13-15)

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RUTH – “friendship”

“But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die…”
(Ruth 1:16-17)

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ZIKARON – “remembrance

“Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD gave attention and heard it, and a sefer zikaron (book of remembrance) was written before Him for those who fear the LORD and who esteem His name.” (Malachi 3:16)

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SHALOSH - “three”

“Shalosh (Three) times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Passover) and at the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) and at the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles)…” (Deut. 16:16)

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SHAVUOT – “weeks”

– Hebrew name for PENTECOST

“You shall observe the Feast of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks), the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.” (Exodus 34:22)