Job 30:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַקֹּטְפִ֣ים מַלּ֣וּחַ עֲלֵי־שִׂ֑יחַ וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁ רְתָמִ֣ים לַחְמָֽם

Transliteration

The qōṭəp̄îm mallûaḥ upon śîaḥ and šōreš rəṯāmîm their laḥmām

Grammar Details

*ha-qōṭəp̄îm*: definite article with verb, qal participle, masculine plural - the ones plucking/gathering
*mallûaḥ*: noun, masculine singular - mallow/salt herb
*ʿălê-śîaḥ*: preposition with noun, masculine singular - upon bush/shrub
*wə-šōreš*: conjunction with noun, masculine singular construct - and root of
*rəṯāmîm*: noun, masculine plural - broom trees/juniper
*laḥmām*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their bread/food

Word Meanings

*qōṭəp̄îm*: plucking/gathering/picking
*mallûaḥ*: mallow/salt herb/purslane
*śîaḥ*: bush/shrub/plant
*šōreš*: root/base/foundation
*rəṯāmîm*: broom trees/juniper/retem bushes
*laḥmām*: their bread/their food/their sustenance

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 4:38-39 : 38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets. 39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not.
Amos 7:14 : 14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a dresser of sycomore-trees:
Luke 15:16 : 16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

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