Job 30:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ע֭וֹרִי שָׁחַ֣ר מֵעָלָ֑י וְעַצְמִי־חָ֝֗רָה מִנִּי־חֹֽרֶב

Transliteration

My ʿôrî šāḥar from upon me, and my ʿaṣmî-ḥārâ from ḥōreḇ

Grammar Details

*ʿôrî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my skin
*šāḥar*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - becomes black/darkens
*mēʿālāy*: preposition with preposition with 1st person singular suffix - from upon me
*wə-ʿaṣmî*: conjunction with noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - and my bone
*ḥārâ*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - burns/is hot
*minnî-ḥōreḇ*: preposition with noun, masculine singular - from heat/drought

Word Meanings

*ʿôrî*: my skin/my hide
*šāḥar*: becomes black/darkens/grows dark
*ʿaṣmî*: my bone/my skeleton/my frame
*ḥārâ*: burns/is hot/is inflamed
*ḥōreḇ*: heat/drought/burning

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 102:3 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
Lam 4:8 : 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; They are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

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