Job 38:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֵי־זֶ֣ה הַ֭דֶּרֶךְ יֵחָ֣לֶק א֑וֹר יָפֵ֖ץ קָדִ֣ים עֲלֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

Where-zeh the-derekə yēḥāleq ʾôr yāpēṣ qādîm upon-ʾāreṣ?

Grammar Details

*ʾêy*: interrogative adverb - where?
*zeh*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this
*ha-*: definite article - the
*derekə*: noun, masculine singular - way/path
*yēḥāleq*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it is divided/distributed
*ʾôr*: noun, masculine singular - light
*yāpēṣ*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it scatters
*qādîm*: noun, masculine singular - east wind
*ʿălêy*: preposition - upon/over
*ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - earth/land

Word Meanings

*derekə*: way/path/road
*yēḥāleq*: it is divided/it is distributed/it is scattered
*ʾôr*: light/daylight
*yāpēṣ*: it scatters/it spreads
*qādîm*: east wind/eastern wind
*ʾāreṣ*: earth/land/ground

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 38:12-13 : 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [And] caused the dayspring to know its place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?
Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Matt 24:27 : 27 For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

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