Job 24:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עָר֣וֹם יָ֭לִינוּ מִבְּלִ֣י לְב֑וּשׁ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת בַּקָּרָֽה

Transliteration

ʿārôm yālînû mibbəlî ləbûš wəʾên kəsût baqqārâ

Grammar Details

*ʿārôm*: adjective masculine singular - 'naked'
*yālînû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - 'they spend the night'
*mibbəlî*: preposition *min* + adverb *bəlî* - 'without'
*ləbûš*: noun masculine singular - 'clothing/garment'
*wəʾên*: conjunction *wə* + particle of negation - 'and there is no'
*kəsût*: noun feminine singular - 'covering'
*baqqārâ*: preposition *bə* + definite article + noun feminine singular - 'in the cold'

Word Meanings

*ʿārôm*: naked/bare
*yālînû*: spend the night/lodge/remain overnight
*mibbəlî*: without/lacking
*ləbûš*: clothing/garment/covering
*kəsût*: covering/garment
*baqqārâ*: in the cold/during cold weather

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Exod 22:26-27 : 26 If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down: 27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Job 22:6 : 6 For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.
Deut 24:11-13 : 11 Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee. 12 And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; 13 thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God.
Gen 31:40 : 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
Job 24:10 : 10 [ So that] they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
Job 31:19-20 : 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Prov 31:21 : 21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household; For all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Isa 58:7 : 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Acts 9:31 : 31 So the church throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was multiplied.

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