Hidden Treasures of Psalms 119 - The Meaning of Word - Feminine Version

Hidden treasures of the 119th Psalm.

So we are going on a treasure hunt, and the gold we are seeking in this treasure hunt is actually the face of God, pure light. So join us taking this deep dive mining with King David in the 119th Psalm. We are mining further into the word word today because of the ten words, two of them happen to be the word word. You know, one is in Hebrew, as we talked about, debar, but interestingly, there is another form of the word word, which is used throughout and actually quite frequently throughout the 119th Psalm is the word emira. And it's spelled completely differently, and it has a lot different connotation to it, but one of the neat things to really consider from my perspective when we dig into this word word is that it's a completely different gender. In other words, the word debar is a male noun, where the word emira is a female noun. And when you think about the milk of the word, then you begin to get a sense of, wow, God is truly genderful, and so when he gives words, they're words that are male, and there's words that are female. So what's really cool is when you see, like, in the eight verses of the letter bet, they use that word words three different times, the way it's translated in English. But there are two debars and one emira.

So what's the difference? Well, it's interesting that you may be very familiar with that, you know, I've hidden thy word in my heart that I might not sin against thee. That's the emira word, the second one, the one we're talking about today, the female word, where it says that I have delighted in your statutes, therefore I will not forget your word. That's the debar word.

That's the more of a command, the more of a male word. And so when you look at these two different things throughout the Psalm, it's a beautiful thing to see. And for example, in verse 119.03, I mean, excuse me, it's verse 103 of the 119th Psalm, it says, How sweet are thy words unto my taste!

Yea, sweeter than honey. Well, you might guess that that's the word emira rather than the debar. And so as we study this, it's a beautiful thing to take a look at these two ways that words are expressed, but more also for today's, you know, mining expedition, I just want you to think with me about how cool is it that your mother has words that you remember, I'm hoping you had a good mom, but at least a female caregiver of some kind, that you got words from her that certainly have been hidden down in your heart, that you wouldn't sin against God, you know, or God's provided them some way. These female words that came of nurture and those kind of things that wise soldiers cry out on the battlefield for mom, because this is what they're looking for, is a word from their mom. Well, you know, this is reflected throughout the Psalm, but also there's times that we have words that our father gave us, words that we live by. And so, you know, it's really neat for me to see how genderful God really is and how he meets our needs in so many different ways. As we look at this word emira, let's just look at how it's spelled and talk about that a minute.

It's really tremendously beautiful to me. The first two letters are aleph and mem, okay? That aleph is normally meant the father and the mem normally is meant for the Messiah or Jesus or water. But when you put them together, it spells mom, it spells mother. If you put aleph and a mem together, in other words, when you say father, right?

You know, that's abba, that's an aleph and a bet. But when you say mother, it's an aleph and a mem. And thus we get the idea, the female gender of this word that means word, emira. And like to bar, the next letter is a reish, meaning the head or the beginning of something, which clearly, you know, your mom was the beginning of you in so many different ways. And then the letter hei, which does in fact mean expression. And so these are expressions of the headship of your mother, who's your beginning to some extent.

But clearly, God plays both those roles as he is genderful. So as we look into the 119th Psalm, not only do we get to ponder on the word debar, which means word, but we will also ponder on this word, which is absolutely beautiful, emira. And what those words mean to us, again, it's an amazing thing to think, wow, they gave us this and to study this in the way that the psalmist clearly understood the difference of the gender of these words, word, and how beautiful the language is that we can see clearer the heart of God through these expressions. Thank you for sharing this trip with me on this mining trip, as always, I'm honored. There's a PDF that has these words, you can see the spelling there and some of the information on them that are there in the show notes. And again, I am just so delighted to take this journey with you.