Job 41:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִ֭נְּחִירָיו יֵצֵ֣א עָשָׁ֑ן כְּד֖וּד נָפ֣וּחַ וְאַגְמֹֽן׃

Transliteration

Minneḥîrāyw yēṣēʾ ʿāšān kəḏûḏ nāp̄ûaḥ wəʾaḡmōn

Grammar Details

*Minneḥîrāyw*: preposition with noun, dual with 3rd masculine singular suffix - from his nostrils
*yēṣēʾ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - goes out/comes forth
*ʿāšān*: noun, masculine singular - smoke
*kəḏûḏ*: preposition with noun, masculine singular - like a pot
*nāp̄ûaḥ*: qal passive participle, masculine singular - blown upon
*wəʾaḡmōn*: conjunction with noun, masculine singular - and a reed/rush

Word Meanings

*neḥîrāyw*: his nostrils
*yēṣēʾ*: goes out/comes forth/proceeds
*ʿāšān*: smoke
*ḏûḏ*: pot/kettle/cauldron
*nāp̄ûaḥ*: blown upon/heated
*ʾaḡmōn*: reed/rush/reeds boiling

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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

Gen 1:25 : 25 And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

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