Job 33:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

His flesh shall be fresher than a child's; He returneth to the days of his youth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רֻֽטֲפַ֣שׁ בְּשָׂר֣וֹ מִנֹּ֑עַר יָ֝שׁ֗וּב לִימֵ֥י עֲלוּמָֽיו׃

Transliteration

ruṭăpaš bəśārô minnō'ar yāšûb lîmê 'ălûmāyw

Grammar Details

*ruṭăpaš*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - is fresh/tender
*bəśārô*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his flesh
*minnō'ar*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - than in youth
*yāšûb*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he returns
*lîmê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - to days of
*'ălûmāyw*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his youth

Word Meanings

*ruṭăpaš*: is fresh/is tender/is restored
*bəśārô*: his flesh/his body/his skin
*minnō'ar*: than in youth/more than in childhood
*yāšûb*: he returns/he goes back/he reverts
*'ălûmāyw*: his youth/his young manhood/his vigor

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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

2 Kgs 5:14 : 14 Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Ps 103:5 : 5 Who satisfieth thy desire with good things, [So that] thy youth is renewed like the eagle.
Hos 2:15 : 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Job 42:16 : 16 And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.
Deut 34:7 : 7 And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Josh 14:10-11 : 10 And now, behold, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as he spake, these forty and five years, from the time that Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. 11 As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.

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