Job 14:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְגֶ֣בֶר יָ֭מוּת וַֽיֶּחֱלָ֑שׁ וַיִּגְוַ֖ע אָדָ֣ם וְאַיּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

wəgeber yāmût wayyeḥĕlāš wayyigwaʿ ʾādām wəʾayyô

Grammar Details

*wəgeber*: conjunction + noun, masculine, singular - and man/strong man
*yāmût*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular - he dies
*wayyeḥĕlāš*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular - and he is weakened/prostrated
*wayyigwaʿ*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular - and he expires/perishes
*ʾādām*: noun, masculine, singular - man/human
*wəʾayyô*: conjunction + interrogative + 3rd person, masculine, singular, suffix - and where is he

Word Meanings

*geber*: man/mighty man/strong man
*yāmût*: dies/perishes
*wayyeḥĕlāš*: is weakened/is prostrated/is laid low
*wayyigwaʿ*: expires/perishes/breathes his last
*ʾādām*: man/mankind/human
*ʾayyô*: where is he/his whereabouts

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Referenced Verses

Job 7:7-9 : 7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. 8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Job 14:12 : 12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Job 17:13-16 : 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Job 19:26 : 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Matt 27:50 : 50 {G1161} Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
Luke 16:22-23 : 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Acts 5:10 : 10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
Job 10:18 : 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Gen 49:33 : 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Job 3:11 : 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

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