First Thought

זֶה הַדֶּרֶךְ לְכוּ בוֹ

This is the way, walk in it (Isaiah 30:21)

Pray that you continually walk in His way, not your own way

The first word in the passage above is an example of a “demonstrative pronoun”. The first two words are translated, “this is the way”. Contrast “this is the way” with the phrase “this way.” “This way” would be written הַדֶּרֶךְ הַזֶּה. “This way” is an example of a “demonstrative adjective.”

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Figure 8.1: Sea of Galilee and Plain of Gennesaret. Yeshua likely walked this way through the valley on His way from Nazareth to Capernaum (a town on the coastline, roughly in the center of the picture above). Courtesy of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands