Job 10:22

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶ֤רֶץ עֵיפָ֨תָה ׀ כְּמ֥וֹ אֹ֗פֶל צַ֭לְמָוֶת וְלֹ֥א סְדָרִ֗ים וַתֹּ֥פַע כְּמוֹ־אֹֽפֶל׃ פ

Transliteration

ʾereṣ ʿêpātâ like ʾōpel ṣalmāwet and not sədārîm and tōpaʿ like ʾōpel

Grammar Details

• *ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular construct - land of
• *ʿêpātâ*: adjective, feminine singular - gloom
• *ʾōpel*: noun, masculine singular - darkness
• *ṣalmāwet*: noun, masculine singular - deep darkness/shadow of death
• *sədārîm*: noun, masculine plural - order/arrangement
• *tōpaʿ*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - it shines

Word Meanings

• *ʿêpātâ*: gloom/darkness/obscurity
• *ʾōpel*: darkness/gloom/thick darkness
• *ṣalmāwet*: deep darkness/shadow of death/gloom
• *sədārîm*: order/arrangement/organization
• *tōpaʿ*: it shines/it appears/it gives light

Referenced Verses

• Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
• Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
• Job 38:17 : 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
• Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
• Ps 44:19 : 19 Though thou hast sore broken{H8765)} us in the place of dragons, and covered{H8762)} us with the shadow of death.
• Ps 88:12 : 12 Shall thy wonders be known{H8735)} in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
• Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
• Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
• Luke 16:26 : 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.