Job 28:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶ֗רֶץ מִמֶּ֥נָּה יֵֽצֵא־לָ֑חֶם וְ֝תַחְתֶּ֗יהָ נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ כְּמוֹ־אֵֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

ʾEreṣ from-it yēṣēʾ-lāḥem and-taḥtehā nehpaḵ like-ʾēš

Grammar Details

*ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine, singular, absolute - earth/land
*yēṣēʾ*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - comes out/goes forth
*lāḥem*: noun, masculine, singular, absolute - bread/food
*taḥtehā*: preposition + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - under it
*nehpaḵ*: verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - is turned/overturned
*ʾēš*: noun, feminine, singular, absolute - fire

Word Meanings

*yēṣēʾ*: comes forth/emerges/goes out
*lāḥem*: bread/food/grain
*nehpaḵ*: is overturned/transformed/changed
*ʾēš*: fire/flame

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Reference numbers can disrupt continuous reading
Less suitable for public or devotional reading compared to modern translations

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Referenced Verses

Gen 1:11-12 : 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:29 : 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Ps 104:14-15 : 14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
Isa 28:25-29 : 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. 28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen. 29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
Ezek 28:13-14 : 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

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