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A Hebrew Word for the Day: Key Words from the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

The purpose of A Hebrew Word for the Day is to share the richness of the Hebrew language words used in the Old Testament and help make them practical in the reader's Christian living. Simply because words matter, the words of the Bible matter most. And in a day when words don't seem to mean much, the need for precision in Christian doctrine and practice has never been more critical. For each day...

šag̱āh [and] āwōn [and] pešaʿ Is the issue of sin really all that important? Yes—it is mentioned approximately 900 times in the Bible. In addition to the most commonly used Hebrew word, chāṭāʾ, we find several others used to picture the seriousness of sin (see July 11 for another). One such word is šag̱āh (), “to go astray, to deceive, to wander, to make a mistake, to reel.” It’s used primarily to express the idea of straying or wandering and frequently describes
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