Job 39:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁר־שַׂ֣מְתִּי עֲרָבָ֣ה בֵית֑וֹ וּֽמִשְׁכְּנוֹתָ֥יו מְלֵֽחָה׃

Transliteration

ʾăšer-śamtî ʿărābāh bêtô û-mišḵənôtāyw məlēḥāh

Grammar Details

*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/which/that
*śamtî*: qal perfect, 1st person common singular - I set/placed
*ʿărābāh*: feminine singular absolute - desert plain/wilderness
*bêtô*: masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his house
*û*: conjunction - and
*mišḵənôtāyw*: masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his dwelling places
*məlēḥāh*: feminine singular absolute - salt land/barren place

Word Meanings

*ʾăšer*: who/which/that
*śamtî*: I set/placed/established
*ʿărābāh*: desert plain/wilderness/steppe
*bêtô*: his house/home/dwelling
*mišḵənôtāyw*: his dwelling places/habitations
*məlēḥāh*: salt land/barren place/salt marsh

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Jer 2:24 : 24 a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
Jer 17:6 : 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Deut 29:23 : 23 [ and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Job 24:5 : 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness [yieldeth] them bread for their children.
Ezek 47:11 : 11 But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
Hos 8:9 : 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, [like] a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

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