Hebrew Bible – Old Testament – the Mikra or the acronym ...

The phrase “the apple of the eye,” (17) meaning figuratively a favorite, means literally the eyeball. Jesus’s last words on the cross, as recorded in Matthew, are from the opening of Psalm 22: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” The phrase from the Sermon on the Mount, “the meek shall inherit the earth,” is from Psalm 37. ................
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