Job 1:19

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִנֵּה֩ ר֨וּחַ גְּדוֹלָ֜ה בָּ֣אָה ׀ מֵעֵ֣בֶר הַמִּדְבָּ֗ר וַיִּגַּע֙ בְּאַרְבַּע֙ פִּנּ֣וֹת הַבַּ֔יִת וַיִּפֹּ֥ל עַל־הַנְּעָרִ֖ים וַיָּמ֑וּתוּ וָאִמָּ֨לְטָ֧ה רַק־אֲנִ֛י לְבַדִּ֖י לְהַגִּ֥יד לָֽךְ׃

Transliteration

and-hinnēh rûaḥ gədôlâ bāʾâ from-ʿēber the-midbār wa-yiggaʿ in-four pinnôt the-bayit wa-yippōl on-the-nəʿārîm wa-yāmûtû wā-ʾimmālṭâ only-I ləbaddî lə-haggîd to-you

Grammar Details

• *hinnēh*: demonstrative particle - behold
• *rûaḥ*: feminine singular noun - wind
• *gədôlâ*: feminine singular adjective - great
• *bāʾâ*: qal perfect 3rd feminine singular - came
• *ʿēber*: masculine singular construct - across/beyond
• *midbār*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the wilderness
• *wa-yiggaʿ*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and struck
• *pinnôt*: feminine plural construct - corners of
• *bayit*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the house
• *wa-yippōl*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and fell
• *nəʿārîm*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the young people
• *wa-yāmûtû*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and they died
• *wā-ʾimmālṭâ*: conjunction + niphal imperfect 1st common singular cohortative - and I escaped
• *ləbaddî*: preposition + masculine singular noun + 1st common singular suffix - by myself
• *lə-haggîd*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct - to tell

Word Meanings

• *rûaḥ gədôlâ*: great wind/strong wind/tempest
• *mē-ʿēber ha-midbār*: from across the wilderness/from beyond the desert
• *yiggaʿ*: struck/touched/hit
• *pinnôt*: corners/sides
• *nəʿārîm*: young people/young men/servants (here referring to Job's children)

Referenced Verses

• Gen 37:32-33 : 32 And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no. 33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
• Gen 42:36 : 36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
• Judg 16:30 : 30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
• 2 Sam 18:33 : 33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
• 1 Kgs 20:30 : 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
• Jer 4:11-12 : 11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, 12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
• Matt 7:27 : 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
• Luke 13:1-5 : 1 {G1161} There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? 3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
• Acts 28:4 : 4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
• Eph 2:2 : 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: