Job 33:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתִּקְרַ֣ב לַשַּׁ֣חַת נַפְשׁ֑וֹ וְ֝חַיָּת֗וֹ לַֽמְמִתִֽים׃

Transliteration

wattiqrab laššaḥat napšô wəḥayyātô lamməmîtîm

Grammar Details

• *wattiqrab*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - and she draws near
• *laššaḥat*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - to the pit
• *napšô*: noun, feminine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his soul
• *wəḥayyātô*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and his life
• *lamməmîtîm*: preposition + definite article + hiphil participle, masculine plural - to the ones causing death

Word Meanings

• *tiqrab*: draws near/approaches/comes close
• *šaḥat*: pit/grave/corruption
• *napšô*: his soul/his life/his being
• *ḥayyātô*: his life/his living being/his existence
• *məmîtîm*: ones causing death/destroyers/angels of death

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 24:16 : 16 And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
• Job 7:7 : 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
• Job 15:21 : 21 A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
• Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.
• Job 17:13-16 : 13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; 14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister; 15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
• Job 33:28 : 28 He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.
• Ps 17:4 : 4 As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent.
• Ps 30:3 : 3 O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
• Ps 88:3-5 : 3 For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol. 4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, 5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.
• Isa 38:10 : 10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
• Acts 12:23 : 23 And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because {G3739} he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
• 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them {G2532} murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
• Rev 9:11 : 11 {G2532} They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek [tongue] he hath the name Apollyon.
• Exod 12:23 : 23 For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
• 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.