Job 1:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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 men of the east.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְהִ֣י מִ֠קְנֵהוּ שִֽׁבְעַ֨ת אַלְפֵי־צֹ֜אן וּשְׁלֹ֧שֶׁת אַלְפֵ֣י גְמַלִּ֗ים וַחֲמֵ֨שׁ מֵא֤וֹת צֶֽמֶד־בָּקָר֙ וַחֲמֵ֣שׁ מֵא֣וֹת אֲתוֹנ֔וֹת וַעֲבֻדָּ֖ה רַבָּ֣ה מְאֹ֑ד וַיְהִי֙ הָאִ֣ישׁ הַה֔וּא גָּד֖וֹל מִכָּל־בְּנֵי־קֶֽדֶם׃

Transliteration

wa-yəhî miqnēhū šibʿat ʾalpê-ṣōʾn û-šəlōšet ʾalpê gəmallîm wa-ḥămēš mēʾôt ṣemed-bāqār wa-ḥămēš mēʾôt ʾătônôt wa-ʿăbuddâ rabbâ məʾōd wa-yəhî the-ʾîš that gādôl from-all-bənê-qedem

Grammar Details

• *wa-yəhî*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and was/became
• *miqnēhū*: masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his possession/livestock
• *šibʿat*: construct form of seven
• *ʾalpê*: masculine plural construct - thousands of
• *ṣōʾn*: collective noun - sheep/flock
• *û-šəlōšet*: conjunction + construct form of three
• *gəmallîm*: masculine plural noun - camels
• *wa-ḥămēš*: conjunction + cardinal number - and five
• *mēʾôt*: feminine plural noun - hundreds
• *ṣemed*: masculine singular construct - pair/yoke of
• *bāqār*: collective noun - cattle/oxen
• *ʾătônôt*: feminine plural noun - female donkeys
• *wa-ʿăbuddâ*: conjunction + feminine singular noun - and household/service
• *rabbâ*: feminine singular adjective - great/many
• *məʾōd*: adverb - very/exceedingly
• *ʾîš*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the man
• *gādôl*: masculine singular adjective - great
• *bənê*: masculine plural construct - sons of
• *qedem*: noun - east/ancient time

Word Meanings

• *miqnēhū*: his livestock/possessions/property
• *ṣōʾn*: sheep/small livestock
• *gəmallîm*: camels
• *ṣemed*: pair/yoke/team
• *bāqār*: cattle/oxen/herd
• *ʾătônôt*: female donkeys/she-asses
• *ʿăbuddâ*: service/workforce/household servants
• *gādôl*: great/wealthy/prominent
• *bənê-qedem*: people of the east/easterners/ancient ones

Referenced Verses

• Job 29:25 : 25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
• Job 42:12 : 12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
• Gen 12:16 : 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
• Judg 6:3 : 3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
• Judg 6:5 : 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
• Judg 7:12 : 12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
• Judg 8:10 : 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
• 1 Sam 25:2 : 2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
• 1 Kgs 4:30 : 30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
• 2 Kgs 3:4 : 4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
• 2 Chr 26:10 : 10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
• 2 Chr 32:29 : 29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
• Job 29:9-9 : 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
• Gen 13:6 : 6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
• Gen 25:6 : 6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
• Gen 29:1 : 1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.
• Gen 34:23 : 23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
• Num 23:7 : 7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
• Num 31:32-34 : 32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, 33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, 34 And threescore and one thousand asses,
• Prov 10:22 : 22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
• Gen 12:5 : 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.