Job 4:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַ֭יִשׁ אֹבֵ֣ד מִבְּלִי־טָ֑רֶף וּבְנֵ֥י לָ֝בִ֗יא יִתְפָּרָֽדוּ׃

Transliteration

layiš ʾōbēd from mibblî-ṭārep and û-bənê lābîʾ yitpārādû

Grammar Details

*layiš*: noun, masculine singular - lion (old lion)
*ʾōbēd*: Qal participle, masculine singular - perishing
*mibblî-ṭārep*: preposition + noun, masculine singular + noun, masculine singular - from lack of prey
*û-bənê*: waw conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct - and sons/children of
*lābîʾ*: noun, feminine singular - lioness
*yitpārādû*: Hithpael imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they are scattered

Word Meanings

*layiš*: lion (old lion)/Laish (place name)
*ʾōbēd*: perishing/wandering/being lost
*mibblî-ṭārep*: from lack of prey/food
*bənê*: sons/children/young
*lābîʾ*: lioness/great lion
*yitpārādû*: to be scattered/separated/divided

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Referenced Verses

Ps 34:10 : 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.
Jer 4:7 : 7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
Hos 11:10 : 10 They shall walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.
2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Gen 49:9 : 9 Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
Num 23:24 : 24 Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain.
Num 24:9 : 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, And cursed be every one that curseth thee.
Job 1:19 : 19 and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 8:3-4 : 3 Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness? 4 If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
Job 27:14-15 : 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.
Job 38:39 : 39 Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
Ps 7:2 : 2 Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

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