Sentences with phrase «word ezer»

In the Old Testament, the word EZER appears 21 times in 3 different contexts: the creation of women, when Israel applied for military aid, and in reference to God as Israel's helper for military purposes.

Far from connoting helplessness or subordination, the word ezer is employed elsewhere in Scripture to describe God, the consummate intervener — the helper of the fatherless (Psalm 10:14), King David's strong defender and deliverer (Psalm 70:5), Israel's shield and helper (Deuteronomy 33:29).

reading of the text for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the Hebrew word used in Genesis 2 to describe Eve, (typically translated «helper»), is formed from the Hebrew word ezer.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

Not exact matches

The surprise lies in the word «help» (Hebrew ezer), because the Bible always uses this word for someone who is more powerful; often a warrior or for God himself (Psalm 115:9 - 11).

The word that accompanies ezer is «kengdo» which is often translated as «suitable» so that is why translators often list this reference for women as «suitable helpmeet.»

But the compound word for «helper» here — ezer kenegdo — suggests a sort of military ally, or a partner in a difficult task, and is most often used in Scripture to describe God, who is not generally regarded by patriarchalists as a subordinate.)

That word, helper, is a Hebrew word, EZER.

In Genesis 2, ezer is combined with the word kenegdo to mean something like «a helper of the same nature,» or a corresponding character.

The problem here is that the word «helpmate» (or «Ezer») is used 20 times in the Old with 17 of those occurrences referring to God helping man!

1 Their statements echo the words of the late Israeli Defence Minister Ezer Weizman who stood in front of his Likud Party emblem that showed Jordan as part of Israel and said with regard to the charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization that at the time called for Israel's demise: «We can dream, so can they.»