Job 20:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־יֵ֥רֶא בִפְלַגּ֑וֹת נַהֲרֵ֥י נַ֝חֲלֵ֗י דְּבַ֣שׁ וְחֶמְאָֽה׃

Transliteration

ʾal- yēreʾ bi- pĕlaggôt nahărê naḥălê dĕbaš wĕ- ḥemʾāh

Grammar Details

• *ʾal-*: negative particle - not
• *yēreʾ*: qal jussive, 3rd masculine singular - let him see
• *bi-*: preposition - in/with
• *pĕlaggôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - streams/channels
• *nahărê*: noun, masculine plural construct - rivers
• *naḥălê*: noun, masculine plural construct - torrents/brooks
• *dĕbaš*: noun, masculine singular - honey
• *wĕ-*: conjunction - and
• *ḥemʾāh*: noun, feminine singular - curds/butter

Word Meanings

• *yēreʾ*: let him see/let him look at/let him gaze upon
• *pĕlaggôt*: streams/channels/divisions
• *nahărê*: rivers/streams
• *naḥălê*: torrents/brooks/wadis
• *dĕbaš*: honey/sweetness
• *ḥemʾāh*: curds/butter/cream

Referenced Verses

• Deut 32:13-14 : 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
• Job 29:6 : 6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
• Ps 36:8-9 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink{H8686)} of the river of thy pleasures. 9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
• Ps 81:16 : 16 He should have fed{H8686)} them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied{H8686)} thee.
• Isa 7:15 : 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
• Isa 7:22 : 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
• Isa 41:17 : 17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
• Jer 17:6-8 : 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
• Luke 16:24 : 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
• Rev 22:1 : 1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
• 2 Sam 17:29 : 29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
• 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
• Num 14:23 : 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: