Let's get this party started

And what better way to start than to take a look at
one of our favorite passages . . . Jeremiah 48:10.

“A curse on him who is lax in doing the LORD’S work!
A curse on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed."
(Jeremiah 48:10, NIV)

In the Hebrew, it would look something like this . . .

Hebrew is one of those pesky right-to-left languages so
the initial transliteration can seem odd to the ugly American . . .

Flipping it around so it makes a bit more sense . . .

"being-cursed one-doing work-of Yahweh deceitful
and-being-cursed one-withholding sword-of-him from-bloodshed"

That is a whole lot of information, so why don’t
we concentrate on just one word . . . “Sword”.

This “sword-of-him” or “his sword” is transliterated as “chrbu”.
(Interlinear Scripture Analyzer, version 1.2.0)

According to The Online Bible Edition this would
relate to the Hebrew root . . .

Listed as Strong number 02719

English transliteration: chereb

Pronunciation: kheh’- reb

Based on the 1769 Authorized Version of the Bible,
this word is used several times to represent various
related concepts:

sword 401, knife 5, dagger 3, axes 1, mattocks 1,
TOOL 1, sword + 03027 1; 413 total

Strong’s definition(s)

1) sword, knife
1a) sword
1b) knife
1c) tools for cutting stone

In our subject verse, “chereb” means sword.

So this was the first installment of The Word . . .

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