Job 22:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשִׁית־עַל־עָפָ֥ר בָּ֑צֶר וּבְצ֖וּר נְחָלִ֣ים אוֹפִֽיר׃

Transliteration

wə-šît-ʿal-ʿāpār bāṣer û-bəṣûr nəḥālîm ʾôpîr

Grammar Details

*wə-šît*: conjunction + Qal imperative, masculine singular - and place
*ʿal-ʿāpār*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - on dust
*bāṣer*: noun, masculine singular - gold ore/precious metal
*û-bəṣûr*: conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - and among rock of
*nəḥālîm*: noun, masculine plural - streams/wadis
*ʾôpîr*: proper noun - Ophir

Word Meanings

*šît*: to put/place/set
*ʿāpār*: dust/earth/dirt
*bāṣer*: gold ore/precious metal
*bəṣûr*: rock/stone/cliff
*nəḥālîm*: streams/wadis/valleys
*ʾôpîr*: Ophir (place known for fine gold)

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 9:28 : 28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Isa 13:12 : 12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Gen 10:29 : 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
1 Kgs 10:21 : 21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
1 Kgs 22:48 : 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
2 Chr 1:5 : 5 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
2 Chr 9:10 : 10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
2 Chr 9:27 : 27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
Job 31:25 : 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
Ps 45:9 : 9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand{H8738)} the queen in gold of Ophir.

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