Merhab

James Harnish, in the Lenten study I'm working through, talks about the word Hebrew word merhab. It means "vast expanse or broad place." Interestingly, it can also mean salvation:

• Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me in a  broad place. (Psalm 118:5)
• He brought me out into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. (Psalm 18:16)
• and have not delivered me into he hand of th enemy; you have set my feet in a  broad place. (Psalm 31:8)
• He brought me out into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. (2 Samuel 22:20)

Look at each of those and consider how two definitions, that to me seem vastly different (broad place and salvation) become almost interchangable.

More on this next Monday....