Job 1:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַ֚ד זֶ֣ה מְדַבֵּ֔ר וְזֶ֖ה בָּ֣א וַיֹּאמַ֑ר בָּנֶ֨יךָ וּבְנוֹתֶ֤יךָ אֹֽכְלִים֙ וְשֹׁתִ֣ים יַ֔יִן בְּבֵ֖ית אֲחִיהֶ֥ם הַבְּכֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

while this mədabbēr and-this bāʾ wa-yōʾmar bānêkā and-bənôtêkā ʾōkəlîm wə-šōtîm yayin in-bêt ʾăḥîhem the-bəkôr

Grammar Details

*mədabbēr*: piel participle masculine singular - speaking
*bāʾ*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - came
*wa-yōʾmar*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and said
*bānêkā*: masculine plural noun + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your sons
*bənôtêkā*: feminine plural noun + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your daughters
*ʾōkəlîm*: qal participle masculine plural - eating
*wə-šōtîm*: conjunction + qal participle masculine plural - and drinking
*yayin*: masculine singular noun - wine
*bêt*: masculine singular construct - house of
*ʾăḥîhem*: masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their brother
*bəkôr*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the firstborn

Word Meanings

*ʿad zeh mədabbēr*: while this one was still speaking
*bānêkā û-bənôtêkā*: your sons and your daughters
*ʾōkəlîm wə-šōtîm yayin*: eating and drinking wine/feasting

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Referenced Verses

Job 1:4 : 4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Job 1:13 : 13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job 6:2-3 : 2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Job 8:4 : 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
Job 16:14 : 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
Job 19:9-9 : 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Job 23:2 : 2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Job 27:14 : 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Eccl 9:2 : 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Isa 28:19 : 19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Jer 51:31 : 31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
Lam 1:12 : 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Amos 4:6-9 : 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.

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