Job 24:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִזֶּ֣רֶם הָרִ֣ים יִרְטָ֑בוּ וּֽמִבְּלִ֥י מַ֝חְסֶ֗ה חִבְּקוּ־צֽוּר

Transliteration

From zerem hārîm yirṭābû ûmibbəlî maḥseh ḥibbəqû-ṣûr

Grammar Details

*zerem*: noun masculine singular with preposition *min* - 'from downpour'
*hārîm*: noun masculine plural - 'mountains'
*yirṭābû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - 'they are drenched'
*ûmibbəlî*: conjunction *û* + preposition *min* + adverb *bəlî* - 'and without'
*maḥseh*: noun masculine singular - 'shelter/refuge'
*ḥibbəqû-ṣûr*: piel perfect 3rd person plural + noun masculine singular - 'they embrace rock'

Word Meanings

*zerem*: downpour/flood/heavy rain
*hārîm*: mountains/hills
*yirṭābû*: are drenched/become wet
*maḥseh*: shelter/refuge/place of protection
*ḥibbəqû-ṣûr*: embrace rock/cling to rock

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Lam 4:5 : 5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Heb 11:38 : 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Song 5:2 : 2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

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