Praising God for Our Kidneys

Michael DeVries’ sermon at Eastern Avenue CRC on Sunday, “God the Knitter,” mentioned that the Hebrew word for “inward parts” in verse 13 (“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb”) means “kidneys.”

The Psalms volume of the interlinear Hebrew OT wasn’t on the shelf in the Calvin library, so I had to do some rummaging. Here’s what I found.

Posted by Nathan Bierma on 05/10 at 02:26 PM

  1. Interesting, isn’t it, Nathan?! It’s fun to discover what body organs people of different languages and cultures use to represent different emotions and cognition.

    Posted by Wayne Leman  on  05/12  at  01:59 PM

  2. Indeed! Wayne adds this link by e-mail: Where is Your Heart? Some Body Part Metaphors and Euphemisms in Biblical Hebrew

    Posted by Nathan Bierma  on  05/12  at  02:38 PM
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