Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

Exodus 2:

• About the title: The meaning of the words “Hebrew” and “Passover” has a special relationship. What is it?
  
• What should I learn from verses 3,18, and 22 in this chapter?
  • 1) The meaning of pertinent Hebrew Words.
    • Ark
    • Hebrew
    • Passover
    • Names: Jochebed and Amram, Reuel/Jethro and Gershom.
      
      
  • 2) The importance of looking for threads of Hebrew word meanings that permeate the background of God’s Word, prophecies, and their relationships with amazing insights and understandings.
    

Exodus 2:³ But when she (Jochebed) could no longer hide him (Moses), she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

NAMES: JOCHEBED (Yahweh is Glory) AND AMRAM (Exalted People),
Together, their names proclaim that God exalts His people and reveals His glory.
Moses’ biological parents are Amram (father, a Levite priest) and Jochebed (mother).

NAMES: REUEL (“friend of God” Exodus 2:18)/JETHRO (“abundance, affluence” Exodus 18:1).
Moses’ Father-in – with two separate names.

HEBREW MEANING FOR “HEBREW”


BOTH “HEBREW AND PASSOVER”
The meaning of the word “Hebrew”: “Ivrim : To Cross Over, To Pass Over/Through,– those who had traversed”: there are several mentions of watery crossings: Abraham coming from beyond the River Euphrates, the dramatic Red Sea crossing of the Exodus, and the entry into the Promised Land as they crossed over the River Jordan.

Pass Over: Exodus 12:23 “For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.

The Passover for the Church: I John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. I Corinthians 5:7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

ARK
The meaning of ark is a chest, a box, a coffer, from which comes “coffin”.
Likewise, Noah’s Ark and the Ark of the Covenant

• h8392 tēḇâ ARK
  
  

• Ark of the Covenant: Strong’s H727 – ‘ārôn
  

Exodus 2:¹⁸ When they came to Reuel (aka Jethro) their father, he said, “How is it that you have come so soon today?”

Exodus 2:22 And she (Zipporah) bore him (Moses) a son. He called his name Gershom, for he (Moses) said, “I have been a stranger (nāḵrî) in a foreign land.”

HEBREW MEANING FOR “GERSHOM”

“Gershom” means “foreigner”, “stranger”, “foreigner”, and “expulsion” from gār H1616 “alien”.

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{1 of 3} Exodus 2 – “Go With the Flow”
{2 of 3} Exodus 2 – “Prophetic Redemption” [v21]
{3 of 3} Exodus 2 – “He Brews” [v3,18,22]
{4 of 4} Exodus 2 – “Moe Sez” [Archeology v1]