Job 15:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְבַעֲתֻהוּ צַר וּמְצוּקָה תִּתְקְפֵהוּ כְּמֶלֶךְ עָתִיד לַכִּידוֹר

Transliteration

yəḇaʿătuhû ṣar û-məṣûqāh titqəp̄ēhû kəmeleḵ ʿātîd lakkîdôr

Grammar Details

*yəḇaʿătuhû*: piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - it terrifies him
*ṣar*: noun, masculine singular - distress
*û-məṣûqāh*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular - and anguish
*titqəp̄ēhû*: qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - it overpowers him
*kəmeleḵ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - like a king
*ʿātîd*: adjective, masculine singular - ready
*lakkîdôr*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - for the attack

Word Meanings

*bāʿat*: to terrify, startle, fall upon
*ṣar*: distress, adversity, enemy
*məṣûqāh*: straits, distress, anguish
*tāqap̄*: to prevail, overpower
*meleḵ*: king, ruler, sovereign
*ʿātîd*: ready, prepared
*kîdôr*: attack, assault, battle array

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 6:2-4 : 2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Ps 119:143 : 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Prov 1:27 : 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Prov 6:11 : 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Prov 24:34 : 34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Isa 13:3 : 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Rom 2:9 : 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

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