Job 20:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־יֵ֥רֶא בִפְלַגּ֑וֹת נַהֲרֵ֥י נַ֝חֲלֵ֗י דְּבַ֣שׁ וְחֶמְאָֽה׃

Transliteration

ʾal- yēreʾ bi- pĕlaggôt nahărê naḥălê dĕbaš wĕ- ḥemʾāh

Grammar Details

• *ʾal-*: negative particle - not
• *yēreʾ*: qal jussive, 3rd masculine singular - let him see
• *bi-*: preposition - in/with
• *pĕlaggôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - streams/channels
• *nahărê*: noun, masculine plural construct - rivers
• *naḥălê*: noun, masculine plural construct - torrents/brooks
• *dĕbaš*: noun, masculine singular - honey
• *wĕ-*: conjunction - and
• *ḥemʾāh*: noun, feminine singular - curds/butter

Word Meanings

• *yēreʾ*: let him see/let him look at/let him gaze upon
• *pĕlaggôt*: streams/channels/divisions
• *nahărê*: rivers/streams
• *naḥălê*: torrents/brooks/wadis
• *dĕbaš*: honey/sweetness
• *ḥemʾāh*: curds/butter/cream

Referenced Verses

• Deut 32:13-14 : 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou drankest wine.
• Job 29:6 : 6 When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
• Ps 36:8-9 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; And thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. 9 For with thee is the fountain of life: In thy light shall we see light.
• Ps 81:16 : 16 He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.
• Isa 7:15 : 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
• Isa 7:22 : 22 and it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land.
• Isa 41:17 : 17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
• Jer 17:6-8 : 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
• Luke 16:24 : 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.
• Rev 22:1 : 1 And he showed me a {G2513} river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
• 2 Sam 17:29 : 29 and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
• 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
• Num 14:23 : 23 surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it: