Job 3:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִגְאָלֻ֡הוּ חֹ֣שֶׁךְ וְ֭צַלְמָוֶת תִּשְׁכָּן־עָלָ֣יו עֲנָנָ֑ה יְ֝בַעֲתֻ֗הוּ כִּֽמְרִ֥ירֵי יֽוֹם׃

Transliteration

yigʾālûhû ḥōšek wə-ṣalmāwet tiškān-ʿālāyw ʿănānâ yəbaʿătûhû kimrîrê yôm

Grammar Details

• *yigʾālûhû*: verb, Qal imperfect jussive, 3rd masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - let them claim it
• *ḥōšek*: noun, masculine singular - darkness
• *wə-ṣalmāwet*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and deep darkness/shadow of death
• *tiškān*: verb, Qal imperfect jussive, 3rd feminine singular - let dwell
• *ʿālāyw*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - upon it
• *ʿănānâ*: noun, feminine singular - cloud
• *yəbaʿătûhû*: verb, Piel imperfect jussive, 3rd masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - let them terrify it
• *kimrîrê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - like the blacknesses of
• *yôm*: noun, masculine singular - day

Word Meanings

• *yigʾālûhû*: claim it/redeem it/defile it
• *ṣalmāwet*: deep darkness/shadow of death
• *tiškān*: dwell/rest/settle
• *ʿănānâ*: cloud/dark cloud
• *yəbaʿătûhû*: terrify it/frighten it
• *kimrîrê*: blacknesses/darknesses/eclipses

Referenced Verses

• Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22 The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
• Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
• Job 28:3 : 3 [ Man] setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
• Isa 9:2 : 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
• Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
• Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither said they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt?
• Job 38:17 : 17 Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
• Job 24:17 : 17 For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
• Matt 4:16 : 16 the people that sat in darkness saw a great light, and to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, to them did light spring up.
• Luke 1:79 : 79 To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.
• Heb 12:18 : 18 For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
• Deut 4:11 : 11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
• Job 16:16 : 16 My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
• Ps 44:19 : 19 That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
• Ps 107:10 : 10 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,
• Ps 107:14 : 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And brake their bonds in sunder.
• Jer 4:28 : 28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.
• Ezek 30:3 : 3 For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
• Ezek 34:12 : 12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
• Joel 2:2 : 2 a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
• Amos 5:8 : 8 [ seek him] that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name);
• Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.