Job 12:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּ֭יָדוֹ נֶ֣פֶשׁ כָּל־חָ֑י וְ֝ר֗וּחַ כָּל־בְּשַׂר־אִֽישׁ׃

Transliteration

ʾăšer bə-yādô nepeš kāl-ḥāy wə-rûaḥ kāl-bəśar-ʾîš

Grammar Details

*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/which/that
*bə-yādô*: preposition + noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - in his hand
*nepeš*: noun, feminine singular construct - soul/life of
*kāl-ḥāy*: noun, masculine singular construct + adjective, masculine singular - every living thing
*wə-rûaḥ*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct - and spirit/breath of
*kāl-bəśar-ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular construct + noun, masculine singular construct + noun, masculine singular - all flesh of man

Word Meanings

*yādô*: his hand/power/control
*nepeš*: soul/life/being
*ḥāy*: living/alive
*rûaḥ*: spirit/breath/wind
*bəśar*: flesh/body/meat
*ʾîš*: man/person/human

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Acts 17:28 : 28 for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Num 16:22 : 22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
Job 27:3 : 3 (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
Job 33:4 : 4 The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Almighty giveth me life.
Job 34:14-15 : 14 If he set his heart upon himself, [If] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; 15 All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.
Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
Dan 5:23 : 23 but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Acts 17:25 : 25 neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Ps 104:29 : 29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.
Gen 2:7 : 7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 6:17 : 17 And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.

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