Job 32:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חַ֭תּוּ לֹא־עָ֣נוּ ע֑וֹד הֶעְתִּ֖יקוּ מֵהֶ֣ם מִלִּֽים׃

Transliteration

They are dismayed ḥattû not-lōʾ-ʿānû still ʿôd heʿtîqû from them mēhem millîm

Grammar Details

*ḥattû*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - they are dismayed
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*ʿānû*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - they answered
*ʿôd*: adverb - still/yet/again
*heʿtîqû*: hiphil perfect 3rd person common plural - they removed
*mēhem*: preposition min + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - from them
*millîm*: noun feminine plural - words

Word Meanings

*ḥattû*: they are dismayed/they are broken/they are shattered
*lōʾ-ʿānû ʿôd*: they no longer answer/they do not answer anymore
*heʿtîqû mēhem millîm*: words are removed from them/they have nothing more to say/speech has departed from them

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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

Job 6:24-25 : 24 Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?
Job 29:22 : 22 After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.
Matt 7:23 : 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Matt 22:22 : 22 And when they heard it, they marvelled, and left him, and went away.
Matt 22:26 : 26 in like manner the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
Matt 22:34 : 34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.
Matt 22:46 : 46 And no one was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

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