Job 38:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner - stone thereof,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַל־מָ֭ה אֲדָנֶ֣יהָ הָטְבָּ֑עוּ א֥וֹ מִֽי־יָ֝רָ֗ה אֶ֣בֶן פִּנָּתָֽהּ׃

Transliteration

Upon-what ʾădāneyhā hāṭbāʿû? Or who-yārâ ʾeben pinnātāh?

Grammar Details

*ʿal*: preposition - upon/on
*mâ*: interrogative pronoun - what?
*ʾădāneyhā*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her bases/foundations
*hāṭbāʿû*: hophal perfect, 3rd common plural - they were sunk/fastened
*ʾô*: conjunction - or
*mî*: interrogative pronoun - who?
*yārâ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - laid/cast/threw
*ʾeben*: noun, feminine singular - stone
*pinnātāh*: noun, feminine singular construct with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her cornerstone

Word Meanings

*ʾădāneyhā*: her bases/her foundations/her pillars
*hāṭbāʿû*: they were sunk/they were fastened/they were embedded
*yārâ*: laid/cast/threw/placed
*pinnātāh*: her cornerstone/her corner

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Referenced Verses

Job 26:7 : 7 He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Ps 104:5 : 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever.
Ps 118:22 : 22 The stone which the builders rejected Is become the head of the corner.
Isa 28:16 : 16 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious [corner-] [stone] of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste.
Ps 93:1 : 1 Jehovah reigneth; He is clothed with majesty; Jehovah is clothed with strength; he hath girded himself therewith: The world also is established, that it cannot be moved.
2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;
Zech 12:1 : 1 The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. [Thus] saith Jehovah, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:
Eph 2:20-21 : 20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; 21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;
Ps 24:2 : 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.
Exod 26:18-25 : 18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward. 19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons: 20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards, 21 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 22 And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards. 23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part. 24 And they shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire unto the top thereof unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. 25 And there shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
1 Sam 2:8 : 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, And inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, And he hath set the world upon them.
Ps 144:12 : 12 When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;

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