Job 29:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָ֣ב אָ֭נֹכִֽי לָֽאֶבְיוֹנִ֑ים וְרִ֖ב לֹא־יָדַ֣עְתִּי אֶחְקְרֵֽהוּ

Transliteration

ʾāb ʾānōkî lā-ʾebyônîm wə-rîb lōʾ-yādaʿtî ʾeḥqərēhû

Grammar Details

*ʾāb*: noun, masculine singular - father
*ʾānōkî*: pronoun, 1st person singular - I
*lā-ʾebyônîm*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine plural - to the needy
*wə-rîb*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and case/dispute
*lōʾ-yādaʿtî*: negative particle + Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I did not know
*ʾeḥqərēhû*: Qal imperfect, 1st person singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - I searched it out/investigated it

Word Meanings

*ʾāb*: father/protector/provider
*ʾebyônîm*: needy/poor/destitute people
*rîb*: case/dispute/legal cause/controversy
*yādaʿtî*: I knew/was acquainted with
*ʾeḥqərēhû*: I investigated it/searched it out/examined it

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Prov 29:7 : 7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Esth 2:7 : 7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Job 31:18 : 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
Ps 68:5 : 5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Prov 25:2 : 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Job 24:4 : 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Exod 18:26 : 26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Deut 13:14 : 14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
Deut 17:8-9 : 8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
1 Kgs 3:16-28 : 16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. 21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear. 22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king. 23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living. 24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. 25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other. 26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. 27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof. 28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
Eph 5:1 : 1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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