Job 30:29

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָ֭ח הָיִ֣יתִי לְתַנִּ֑ים וְ֝רֵ֗עַ לִבְנ֥וֹת יַעֲנָֽה

Transliteration

ʾāḥ I hāyîṯî to tannîm, and rēaʿ to ḇənôṯ yaʿănâ

Grammar Details

*ʾāḥ*: noun, masculine singular - brother
*hāyîṯî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have become/was
*lə-tannîm*: preposition with noun, masculine plural - to jackals/dragons
*wə-rēaʿ*: conjunction with noun, masculine singular - and companion/friend
*li-ḇənôṯ*: preposition with noun, feminine plural construct - to daughters of
*yaʿănâ*: noun, feminine singular - ostrich

Word Meanings

*ʾāḥ*: brother/kinsman
*hāyîṯî*: have become/was/am
*tannîm*: jackals/dragons/wild dogs
*rēaʿ*: companion/friend/associate
*ḇənôṯ yaʿănâ*: daughters of ostrich/ostriches/female ostriches

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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

Mic 1:8 : 8 For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
Ps 102:6 : 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.
Isa 13:21-22 : 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there. 22 And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
Job 17:14 : 14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
Ps 44:19 : 19 That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
Mal 1:3 : 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

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