Good counsel for living Photo by EYÜP BELEN@Pexels ✍🏾 “Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.” purpose - machashabah or machashebeth Or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh’-beth}; from chashab; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good…

A moral universe of meaning Photo by George Desipris@Pexels ✍🏾 “Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.” devise - charash A primitive root; to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate…

And other folks as woke Photo by Ketut Subiyanto@Pexels ✍🏾 “A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.” inheritance - nachal A primitive root; to inherit (as a (figurative) mode of descent), or (generally) to occupy…

Beatify our sausage and honey, how are you? Photo by Pixabay@Pexels ✍🏾 “Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.” truly - emunah or {em-oo-naw’} feminine of ‘emuwn; literally firmness; figuratively security; morally fidelity -- faith(-ful, -ly, -ness, (man)), set office, stability, steady…

Renewal by the hour Photo by Pixabay@Pexels ✍🏾 “As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.” fair - yapheh From yaphah; beautiful (literally or figuratively) -- pleasant, well. discretion - taam From ta’am; properly, a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by…

Are You Happy Yet? We like the living easy — GDP for bliss Photo by Pixabay@Pexels ✍🏾 “The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” blessing - berakah From barak; benediction; by implication prosperity -- blessing. rich - ashar A primitive root; properly…

Sent forth her maidens and sweet crude Photo by Asad@Pexels ✍🏾 “She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city.” maidens - naarah Feminine of na’ar; a girl (from infancy to adolescence) -- damsel, maid(-en), young (woman). highest - gaph body, self, height, elevation …

Sockless loafers beneath the Georgio Armani Photo by Masha Raymers@Pexels ✍🏾 “The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.” beginning - reshith From the same as ro’sh; the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit) -- beginning. works - miph’al …

The pinched inch and taking it off Annushka Ahuja@Pexels ✍🏾 “He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks.” straightway - pithom Or pith.om {pith-ome’}; from petha’; instantly -- straightway, sudden(-ly The opaque measuring cup, half dipped…