Job 27:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־יִרְבּ֣וּ בָנָ֣יו לְמוֹ־חָ֑רֶב וְ֝צֶאֱצָאָ֗יו לֹ֣א יִשְׂבְּעוּ־לָֽחֶם׃

Transliteration

ʾim-yirbû ḇānāyw ləmô-ḥāreḇ wə-ṣeʾĕṣāʾāyw lōʾ yiśbəʿû-lāḥem

Grammar Details

*ʾim-yirbû*: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - if they multiply
*ḇānāyw*: noun masculine plural construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his sons
*ləmô-ḥāreḇ*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix + noun feminine singular - (it is) for the sword
*wə-ṣeʾĕṣāʾāyw*: conjunction + noun masculine plural construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - and his offspring
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*yiśbəʿû-lāḥem*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural + noun masculine singular - they will be satisfied with bread

Word Meanings

*rāḇâ*: be/become many/much/great
*bēn*: son/male child
*ḥereḇ*: sword/knife/tool
*ṣeʾĕṣāʾ*: offspring/descendants
*śāḇaʿ*: be satisfied/have enough
*leḥem*: bread/food/grain

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Deut 28:41 : 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity.
Job 20:10 : 10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth.
Luke 23:29 : 29 For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.
Deut 28:32 : 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.
Job 21:11-12 : 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance. 12 They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Hos 9:13-14 : 13 Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer. 14 Give them, O Jehovah—what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
1 Sam 2:5 : 5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were hungry have ceased [to hunger]: Yea, the barren hath borne seven; And she that hath many children languisheth.
2 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Jehovah, at the hand of Jezebel. 8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man - child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel.
2 Kgs 10:6-9 : 6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be on my side, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to-morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up. 7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them unto him to Jezreel. 8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning. 9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him; but who smote all these? 10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of Jehovah, which Jehovah spake concerning the house of Ahab: for Jehovah hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.
Esth 5:11 : 11 And Haman recounted unto them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
Esth 9:5-9 : 5 And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would unto them that hated them. 6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. 7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, 8 and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, 9 and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaizatha, 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, slew they; but on the spoil they laid not their hand.
Job 15:22 : 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.

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