Hebrew is the most important most qualified is Dr. Danny Ben-Gigi,

former head of Hebrew studies at Arizona State University. And Danny, when you come here,

it's always interesting and a lot of fun.

Thank you so much for hosting me here, Pastor Gary. And we're going to start right off.

And we'd like to address those of you who really are not students in the Hebrew language

with the importance of Hebrew in a word that you find in your Bible.

And that word is Hosanna.

And before we came on today, Danny and I were talking about the word

Hosanna, which is used by Christians everywhere, but mostly misused, right?

Well, it's used with a lot of jubilee, a lot of excitement and happiness, but it does miss the entire

meaning of the word Hosanna. Right, right. It's like an outcry of joy, but actually it has a very,

very specific meaning, yes. And when you say Hosanna, you're not celebrating. That is to say most of the time when people utter the word Hosanna, it's like it's a cheer.

It's a happiness, you know.

No, you're begging.

You're begging.

You're begging.

So tell us about that.

Okay, so it's made up of two words.

One is hoshah, and that's an imperative in Hebrew. It's a request. It's not a command

because they are talking to Jesus, but that's an imperative. And the word nah, which is another

kind of a strange phenomenon in the Bible, so the word hosha means save us, and the word nah means please.

So that's basically what they're saying, please, we beg you, save us.

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