Job 18:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The members of his body shall be devoured, [Yea], the first-born of death shall devour his members.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יֹאכַל בַּדֵּי עוֹרוֹ יֹאכַל בַּדָּיו בְּכוֹר מָוֶת

Transliteration

yōʾḵal baddê ʿôrô yōʾḵal baddāyw bəḵôr māwet

Grammar Details

*yōʾḵal*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it will devour
*baddê*: noun, masculine plural construct - parts of
*ʿôrô*: noun, masculine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his skin
*baddāyw*: noun, masculine plural construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his limbs
*bəḵôr*: noun, masculine singular construct - firstborn of
*māwet*: noun, masculine singular - death

Word Meanings

*yōʾḵal*: will devour/consume/eat
*baddê*: parts/pieces/members
*ʿôrô*: his skin/hide
*baddāyw*: his limbs/members/parts
*bəḵôr māwet*: firstborn of death/deadly disease/fatal plague

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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

Isa 14:30 : 30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.
Jonah 2:6 : 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
Zech 14:12 : 12 And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Rev 6:8 : 8 And I saw, and behold, a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Death; and Hades followed with him. And there was given unto them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Gen 49:3 : 3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.
Job 17:16 : 16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

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