Job 18:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִנָּתֵק מֵאָהֳלוֹ מִבְטַחוֹ וְתַצְעִדֵהוּ לְמֶלֶךְ בַּלָּהוֹת

Transliteration

yinnāṯēq mēʾohŏlô miḇṭaḥô wəṯaṣʿiḏēhû ləmeleḵ ballāhôṯ

Grammar Details

*yinnāṯēq*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it will be torn away
*mēʾohŏlô*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - from his tent
*miḇṭaḥô*: noun, masculine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his confidence
*wəṯaṣʿiḏēhû*: conjunction + Hiphil imperfect, 3rd feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - and it makes him march
*ləmeleḵ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - to the king of
*ballāhôṯ*: noun, feminine plural - terrors

Word Meanings

*yinnāṯēq*: will be torn away/uprooted/pulled out
*mēʾohŏlô*: from his tent/dwelling
*miḇṭaḥô*: his confidence/security/trust
*wəṯaṣʿiḏēhû*: and it makes him march/parade/walk
*ləmeleḵ ballāhôṯ*: to the king of terrors/death/destruction

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 8:14 : 14 Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web.
Job 8:22 : 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, And they shall have no way to flee; And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.
Job 24:17 : 17 For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Job 41:34 : 34 He beholdeth everything that is high: He is king over all the sons of pride.
Ps 55:4 : 4 My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Ps 112:10 : 10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: The desire of the wicked shall perish.
Prov 10:28 : 28 The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness; But the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
Matt 7:26-27 : 26 And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: 27 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.
1 Cor 15:55-56 : 55 O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
Heb 2:15 : 15 and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

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