Job 12:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּ֭יָדוֹ נֶ֣פֶשׁ כָּל־חָ֑י וְ֝ר֗וּחַ כָּל־בְּשַׂר־אִֽישׁ׃

Transliteration

ʾăšer bə-yādô nepeš kāl-ḥāy wə-rûaḥ kāl-bəśar-ʾîš

Grammar Details

• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/which/that
• *bə-yādô*: preposition + noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - in his hand
• *nepeš*: noun, feminine singular construct - soul/life of
• *kāl-ḥāy*: noun, masculine singular construct + adjective, masculine singular - every living thing
• *wə-rûaḥ*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct - and spirit/breath of
• *kāl-bəśar-ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular construct + noun, masculine singular construct + noun, masculine singular - all flesh of man

Word Meanings

• *yādô*: his hand/power/control
• *nepeš*: soul/life/being
• *ḥāy*: living/alive
• *rûaḥ*: spirit/breath/wind
• *bəśar*: flesh/body/meat
• *ʾîš*: man/person/human

Referenced Verses

• Acts 17:28 : 28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
• Num 16:22 : 22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
• Job 27:3 : 3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
• Job 33:4 : 4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
• Job 34:14-15 : 14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; 15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
• Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
• Dan 5:23 : 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
• John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Acts 17:25 : 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
• Ps 104:29 : 29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
• Gen 2:7 : 7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Gen 6:17 : 17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.