Job 41:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֵן־תֹּחַלְתּ֥וֹ נִכְזָ֑בָה הֲגַ֖ם אֶל־מַרְאָ֣יו יֻטָֽל׃

Transliteration

Hēn-tōḥaltō niḵzāḇāh hăgam ʾel-marʾāyw yuṭāl

Grammar Details

*Hēn*: demonstrative particle - behold/look
*tōḥaltō*: noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his hope/expectation
*niḵzāḇāh*: niphal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - is disappointed/proven false
*hăgam*: interrogative particle with emphatic particle - is also/even
*ʾel*-*marʾāyw*: preposition with noun, plural construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - at/toward his appearance/sight
*yuṭāl*: hophal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will be cast down/thrown down

Word Meanings

*tōḥaltō*: his hope/his expectation/what one waits for
*niḵzāḇāh*: is proven false/is disappointed/fails
*marʾāyw*: his appearance/his sight/the mere sight of him
*yuṭāl*: is cast down/is thrown down/is prostrated

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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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Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 74:14 : 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Ps 104:26 : 26 There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to play therein.
Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.
Job 3:8 : 8 Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

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