1 Timothy 5:17-18 states:

Elders who provide effective leadership must be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard in speaking and teaching. For the scripture says,

“Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the …

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Note: this is not the same question as those which seek the meaning of “Be Perfect” in itself. Here, the question is what “Be Perfect” refers to in the text.
In Matthew 5:48 Jesus teaches “Be perfect as your Heaven…

I’ve seen the seven binyanim organized as three actives corresponding to three passives and then the hitpa’el as being separate.
However, I recently saw a table that listed the hitpa’el as the “reflexive of the intensive”. I’m tr…

After reading Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy a question arises. For instance, in Genesis 32:33 (NASB)

Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the tendon of the hip which is on the socket of the hip, becau…

What kind of seal or mark and what would it look like? Revelation 9:4 talks about a seal on the forehead.
Revelation 9:4

“They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who d…

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