Job 24:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֵ֤ן פְּרָאִ֨ים ׀ בַּ֥מִּדְבָּ֗ר יָצְא֣וּ בְּ֭פָעֳלָם מְשַׁחֲרֵ֣י לַטָּ֑רֶף עֲרָבָ֥ה ל֥וֹ לֶ֝֗חֶם לַנְּעָרִֽים

Transliteration

Behold pərāʾîm in the midbār yāṣəʾû bəpāʿŏlām məšaḥărê laṭṭāref ʿărābâ lô leḥem lannəʿārîm

Grammar Details

*pərāʾîm*: noun masculine plural - 'wild donkeys'
*midbār*: noun masculine singular with preposition *ba* - 'in wilderness/desert'
*yāṣəʾû*: qal perfect 3rd person plural - 'they go out'
*bəpāʿŏlām*: preposition *bə* + noun masculine singular construct + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'in their work/labor'
*məšaḥărê*: piel participle masculine plural construct - 'seeking early/diligently'
*laṭṭāref*: preposition *lə* + noun masculine singular with definite article - 'for the prey'
*ʿărābâ*: noun feminine singular - 'desert plain/wilderness'
*lô*: preposition *lə* + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - 'for him'
*leḥem*: noun masculine singular - 'bread/food'
*lannəʿārîm*: preposition *lə* + definite article + noun masculine plural - 'for the young ones/children'

Word Meanings

*pərāʾîm*: wild donkeys/onagers
*midbār*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited land
*yāṣəʾû*: go out/go forth/depart
*bəpāʿŏlām*: in their work/labor/activity
*məšaḥărê*: seeking early/diligently searching for
*laṭṭāref*: for the prey/food
*ʿărābâ*: desert plain/wilderness/steppe
*leḥem*: bread/food/sustenance
*lannəʿārîm*: for the young ones/children/servants

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Referenced Verses

Job 39:5-7 : 5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? 6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. 7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
Ps 104:23 : 23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
Prov 4:16 : 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Jer 2:24 : 24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
Hos 7:6 : 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Hos 8:9 : 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
John 18:28 : 28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
Acts 23:12 : 12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Gen 16:12 : 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Gen 27:40 : 40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Job 5:5 : 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Job 12:6 : 6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

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