Job 28:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶ֗רֶץ מִמֶּ֥נָּה יֵֽצֵא־לָ֑חֶם וְ֝תַחְתֶּ֗יהָ נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ כְּמוֹ־אֵֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

ʾEreṣ from-it yēṣēʾ-lāḥem and-taḥtehā nehpaḵ like-ʾēš

Grammar Details

*ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine, singular, absolute - earth/land
*yēṣēʾ*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - comes out/goes forth
*lāḥem*: noun, masculine, singular, absolute - bread/food
*taḥtehā*: preposition + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - under it
*nehpaḵ*: verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - is turned/overturned
*ʾēš*: noun, feminine, singular, absolute - fire

Word Meanings

*yēṣēʾ*: comes forth/emerges/goes out
*lāḥem*: bread/food/grain
*nehpaḵ*: is overturned/transformed/changed
*ʾēš*: fire/flame

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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

Gen 1:11-12 : 11 And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and] fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:29 : 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:
Ps 104:14-15 : 14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth, 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, [And] oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengtheneth man's heart.
Isa 28:25-29 : 25 When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof? 26 For his God doth instruct him aright, [and] doth teach him. 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp [threshing] instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. 28 Bread [grain] is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he doth not grind it. 29 This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
Ezek 28:13-14 : 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes was in you; in the day that you were created they were prepared. 14 You were the anointed cherub that covers: and I set you, [so that] you were upon the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

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