Job 42:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַֽיהוָ֗ה בֵּרַ֛ךְ אֶת־אַחֲרִ֥ית אִיּ֖וֹב מֵרֵאשִׁת֑וֹ וַֽיְהִי־ל֡וֹ אַרְבָּעָה֩ עָשָׂ֨ר אֶ֜לֶף צֹ֗אן וְשֵׁ֤שֶׁת אֲלָפִים֙ גְּמַלִּ֔ים וְאֶֽלֶף־צֶ֥מֶד בָּקָ֖ר וְאֶ֥לֶף אֲתוֹנֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

And-YHWH bērak ʾet-ʾaḥărît ʾIyyôb from-rēʾšîtô and wayǝhî-to-him fourteen thousand ṣōʾn and-six thousand gǝmallîm and-thousand-ṣemed bāqār and-thousand ʾătônôt

Grammar Details

*YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/the LORD
*bērak*: Piel perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he blessed
*ʾaḥărît*: noun, feminine singular construct - latter end/outcome
*ʾIyyôb*: proper noun, masculine singular - Job
*rēʾšîtô*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his beginning
*wayǝhî*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - and there was
*ṣōʾn*: noun, common plural - sheep/flock
*gǝmallîm*: noun, masculine plural - camels
*ṣemed*: noun, masculine singular construct - pair/yoke
*bāqār*: noun, masculine singular - cattle/oxen
*ʾătônôt*: noun, feminine plural - female donkeys

Word Meanings

*bērak*: blessed/prospered
*ʾaḥărît*: latter end/latter state/final condition
*rēʾšîtô*: his beginning/his former state
*wayǝhî*: and there was/and he had
*ṣōʾn*: sheep/small livestock/flocks
*gǝmallîm*: camels
*ṣemed*: pair/yoke/team
*bāqār*: cattle/oxen/herds
*ʾătônôt*: female donkeys/she-asses

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 8:7 : 7 And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
Job 1:3 : 3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
Jas 5:11 : 11 Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.
Gen 24:35 : 35 And Jehovah hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and asses.
Gen 26:12-14 : 12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold: and Jehovah blessed him. 13 And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great: 14 and he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household: and the Philistines envied him.
Ps 107:38 : 38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; And he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Ps 144:13-15 : 13 [ When] our garners are full, affording all manner of store, [And] our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; 14 [ When] our oxen are well laden; [When there is] no breaking in, and no going forth, And no outcry in our streets: 15 Happy is the people that is in such a case; [Yea], happy is the people whose God is Jehovah.
Prov 10:22 : 22 The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich; And he addeth no sorrow therewith.
Eccl 7:8 : 8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; [and] the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on {G2198} God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Deut 8:16 : 16 who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:

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