Job 17:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְֽ֭הִצִּגַנִי לִמְשֹׁ֣ל עַמִּ֑ים וְתֹ֖פֶת לְפָנִ֣ים אֶֽהְיֶֽה׃

Transliteration

wə-hiṣṣiḡanî for-məšōl ʿammîm wə-ṯōp̄eṯ to-faces ʾehye

Grammar Details

*wə-hiṣṣiḡanî*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect 3rd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - and he has set/placed me
*məšōl*: noun, masculine singular construct - proverb/byword of
*ʿammîm*: noun, masculine plural - peoples/nations
*wə-ṯōp̄eṯ*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and spitting/contempt
*ʾehye*: Qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will be

Word Meanings

*wə-hiṣṣiḡanî*: and he has set/placed/established me
*məšōl*: proverb/byword/taunt/object of mockery
*ʿammîm*: peoples/nations/folk
*wə-ṯōp̄eṯ*: and spitting/contempt/abhorrence
*ʾehye*: I will be/become/exist

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 30:9 : 9 And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.
Ps 44:14 : 14 Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
Isa 5:12 : 12 And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
Gen 31:27 : 27 Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp;
1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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