Word Studies -Introduction

This is the start of the special item I have been working on for while I am taking a bloggy break in order to move to our new home and try to get somewhat organized! I hope that you enjoy it and are blessed by it!

Updated to add: Well, our buyer's lender broke their promise, and our moving day slipped one more day, now packing on Wednesday and moving on Thursday, but I am so exhausted and stressed out that I am still starting my bloggy break today.

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For a seminary class I had to complete what the professor called word studies.

These were completed by following these steps:

1. In a specific verse we chose a specific word.
2. We looked that word up on Strong's to get the number and the word in the original language, as well as the definition.
3. Then we looked the word up in at least 6 different lexicons, and recorded the definition.
4. After that we looked up the verse in at least 7 different translations....
5. Followed by looking up the verse in at least 7 different commentaries, again recording what we found.
6. Then we looked at all the information we had gathered, prayerfully, and wrote what he called the Word Application.

I completed 12 of these.

As I will be taking a short bloggy break while we move, I am posting all 12, and then all my references in reverse order, so it might look kind of funky in a reader, but on my blog it will be a read from the top down kind of thing....

If this is something you are interested in doing in your study time, I would encourage you to visit a seminary library to do this! They welcome visitors, and are happy to help you and let you plug in your laptop while you work - this is how I completed mine! Although we are slowly building our own reference library, it is nowhere near large enough to pull this kind of research off - neither will it be anytime soon! :-)

Also, many lexicons are now coded to Strong's, so you don't even have to know Greek or Hebrew to do this!

Any ways, I hope you enjoy these!

Please keep in mind that these focus on what the Lord was saying to me in November 2004.

If you are going to link to this, please kindly link to this introductory post....

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Part 1 - 2 Chronicles 15:7
Part 2 - Psalm 3:3
Part 3 - Psalm 37:4
Part 4 - Proverbs 9:10
Part 5 - Isaiah 25:4
Part 6 - Daniel 6:26
Part 7 - Micah 6:8
Part 8 - John 14:6
Part 9 - Romans 12:2
Part 10 - Galatians 3:24
Part 11 - Colossians 1:13-14
Part 12 - Hebrews 11:6
References / Bibliography
Conclusion