Job 27:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִשָּׂאֵ֣הוּ קָדִ֣ים וְיֵלַ֑ךְ וִֽ֝ישָׂעֲרֵ֗הוּ מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

yiśśāʾēhû qāḏîm wə-yēlaḵ wîśāʿărēhû mimmĕqōmô

Grammar Details

• *yiśśāʾēhû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - it lifts him up
• *qāḏîm*: noun masculine singular - east wind
• *wə-yēlaḵ*: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he goes
• *wîśāʿărēhû*: conjunction + Piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - and it sweeps him away
• *mimmĕqōmô*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - from his place

Word Meanings

• *nāśāʾ*: lift/carry/take
• *qāḏîm*: east/east wind
• *hālaḵ*: go/walk/travel
• *śāʿar*: storm/sweep away/whirl
• *māqôm*: place/location/position

Referenced Verses

• Exod 9:23-25 : 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
• Job 7:10 : 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
• Job 21:18 : 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
• Ps 11:6 : 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
• Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel{H8799)} the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind{H8799)}, both living, and in his wrath.
• Ps 83:15 : 15 So persecute{H8799)} them with thy tempest, and make them afraid{H8762)} with thy storm.
• Jer 18:17 : 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
• Hos 13:15 : 15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
• Nah 1:3-8 : 3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. 7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. 8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
• Matt 7:27 : 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.