Job 31:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־אֶרְאֶ֣ה א֖וֹר כִּ֣י יָהֵ֑ל וְ֝יָרֵ֗חַ יָקָ֥ר הֹלֵֽךְ׃

Transliteration

If-ʾerʾeh ʾôr because yāhēl and-yārēaḥ yāqār hōlēk

Grammar Details

• *ʾerʾeh*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I see
• *ʾôr*: noun, masculine singular - light
• *yāhēl*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it shines
• *yārēaḥ*: noun, masculine singular - moon
• *yāqār*: adjective, masculine singular - precious/splendid
• *hōlēk*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - walking/going

Word Meanings

• *ʾôr*: light/sunlight
• *yāhēl*: shines/gleams/is bright
• *yārēaḥ*: moon/lunar body
• *yāqār*: precious/splendid/glorious
• *hōlēk*: walking/going/moving

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 8:16 : 16 And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's house; and behold, at the door of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
• Deut 4:19 : 19 and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.
• Deut 17:3 : 3 and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
• 2 Kgs 23:5 : 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
• 2 Kgs 23:11 : 11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Jehovah, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
• Jer 8:2 : 2 and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
• Jer 44:17 : 17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
• Deut 11:16 : 16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
• Ps 8:3-4 : 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
• Gen 1:16-18 : 16 And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.