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Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on

Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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26. Laws of the Harvest

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Staff

... , that vast stretch of savanna more than four thousand miles wide just under the Sahara Desert. In the Sahel, all the moisture comes in a four month period: May, June, July, and August. After that, not a drop of rain falls for eight months. The ground cracks from dryness, and so do your hands and feet. The winds of the Sahara pick up the dust and throw it thousands of feet into the air. It then comes slowly drifting across West Africa as a fine grit. It gets inside your mouth. It gets inside your watch and ...

27. Is the Lord Among Us or Not?

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Tony Everett

... t do by your teacher at school or your boss at work? Does it ever seem like no matter how hard you try to adjust to a new situation the same problems arise and the same mistakes persist? How do you handle times of doubt and drought, spiritual dryness and thirst? How do you cope with the complaints of other wilderness travelers and being blamed then for their own dusty spirits and depleted energy? Is the Lord in your place or not? Pay careful attention here. God did not give Moses a website full of effective ...

28. False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 Peter 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... 1.346b) for the haze heralding dry weather. The term occurs in the NT only here. Some MSS have altered it to nephalai (clouds), as in the corresponding passage, Jude 12. Peter may have chosen mists also to suggest the confusing haziness of thought and dryness of spirit resulting from the speculations of the false teachers. Driven: The Greek verb elaunein describes the activity of demons in Luke 8:29. Storm (lailaps): hurricane, whirlwind; found elsewhere in the NT only in Mark 4:37; Luke 8:23. 2:18 The ...

29. A Call to Build the House of the Lord

Haggai 1:1-15

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... Yahweh summoned armies to act as agents in bringing trouble to people (the same construction with qaraʾ; e.g., Isa. 13:3). “Drought” signifies not merely the absence of rain (indeed, it is several times used in antithesis to “dew”) but the consequent parched dryness of the soil, especially when dried up by the fierce heat of the sun. And thus the problem is a general one that means disaster for all crops. Haggai again alludes to warnings such as the one found in Deuteronomy 28:51 when he describes ...

30. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... protecting his sheep from a predatory lion, Job frees the innocent victims from the teeth of their oppressors by breaking their powerful hold over the weak. Additional Notes 29:10 The phrase their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths elsewhere indicates the extreme dryness of mouth that comes as the result of heightened stress and anxiety. In Lam. 4:4, sucklings are thus affected by thirst, while in Ps. 137:6 it is the agony of loss and ridicule that creates this condition. 29:16 The Heb. verb behind ...

31. My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Psalm 22:1-31

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... of the nations’ praising Yahweh. The prayer (vv. 1–21) shows no clear ritual or liturgical connections. As with most, its presupposed situation is open-ended. It makes great use of imagery, some of which is suited to sickness (note esp. the desiccation, or total dryness, in vv. 14–15, 17). Enemies are prominent but the actions clearly attributed to them are not of direct attack but of scorn (vv. 6–8). With this scorn, they surround the speaker and await his death (vv. 12–13, 16–18). In the three ...

32. The Davidic King Promised Dominion over Enemies

Psalm 110:1-7

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... in BHS). If this reading is correct, Yahweh’s “begetting” the king provides another parallel with Psalm 2 (see further on 2:7). The figurative comparison with the dew of the dawn implies the life-giving hope (in a land noted for summer’s dryness) at the king’s coronation. 110:4–7 When read as a literary text, we generally assume this second oracle is also addressed to the king. It is possible, however, that when performed liturgically another figure may have been addressed, notably the high ...

33. The Power of the Wilderness

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... elixir” of . . . . . . oil! The oilcan is his salvation. Once thoroughly oiled, he dances about like a spring chicken. In the scriptures, oil is also used as a healing elixir. It is used on the skin and body to heal wounds and to keep the skin supple and ward off dryness. Ever get static in your hair –the kind that makes your hair stand up? A bit of oil will tame that right down. That’s the beauty of all of those popular oils women and men use in their hair to keep it just in place. But oil is also ...

34. The Tempest

Jonah 4:1-11, Jonah 3:1-10, Jonah 2:1-10, Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of earth, weather, and geography, metaphors such as wind, waves, storms, and the deep to describe the inner turmoil of biblical characters. Think of the psychological/spiritual meaning of the valley of dry bones, the winds that break the cedars of Lebanon, the dryness of the desert, the welcome water at Jacob’s well. Likewise in the story of Jonah, the wind and weather swirling as Jonah boards a ship to sail away to Tarshish, escaping from both God and his own angry and resentful feelings, depicts ...

35. Have a Very Messy Christmas!

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

John Jamison

... it, and in many other places, you could just step from one side to the other. The wide and deeper spots usually became places where people would gather to fill their water jugs, wash clothes, bathe the children… or just escape from the heat and dryness of the land around the river. Most of the land was a wilderness; narrow paths leading through rocky hills and steep canyons, scattered scrub brush, and the occasional old tree whose roots had found some kind of moisture. There were snakes and scorpions and ...

36. The Fearful Meeting

Genesis 32:1-20; 33:1-4, 12-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... you good and make a great people out of you' when you let down that ladder to me that night" (32:12). That's more like the old Jacob--bargaining, pleading, holding God to account. People, watch grandaddy Jacob. Because meeting is never without pain, dryness of the mouth, sweating palms. So we stare at each other across chasms of race, gender, nation, economic class. Though clearly commanded by God to make peace, to be reconciled, Katalagete, we don't risk such perilous meeting. I've got my culture, you've ...

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Psalm 110:1-7

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles