Job 8:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֣ה רֵאשִׁיתְךָ֣ מִצְעָ֑ר וְּ֝אַחֲרִיתְךָ֗ יִשְׂגֶּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃

Transliteration

And hāyāh rēʾšîtḵā miṣʿār wĕ-ʾaḥărîtḵā yiśgeh mĕʾōd

Grammar Details

*wĕ-hāyāh*: conjunction + qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - and will be
*rēʾšîtḵā*: noun feminine singular construct + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your beginning
*miṣʿār*: adjective masculine singular - small/insignificant
*wĕ-ʾaḥărîtḵā*: conjunction + noun feminine singular construct + 2nd masculine singular suffix - and your end/latter state
*yiśgeh*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - will increase/grow
*mĕʾōd*: adverb - very/exceedingly

Word Meanings

*rēʾšît*: beginning/first/chief part
*miṣʿār*: small/little/insignificant
*ʾaḥărît*: end/latter part/future
*yiśgeh*: increase/grow/flourish

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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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

Job 42:12-13 : 12 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. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Zech 4:10 : 10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; [these] [are] the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Matt 13:31-32 : 31 Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: 32 which indeed is less than all seeds; but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof.
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:
Zech 14:7 : 7 but it shall be one day which is known unto Jehovah; not day, and not night; but it shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light.
Matt 13:12 : 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Prov 19:20 : 20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

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