Job 3:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

א֤וֹ כְנֵ֣פֶל טָ֭מוּן לֹ֣א אֶהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝עֹלְלִ֗ים לֹא־רָ֥אוּ אֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

ʾô kənēpel ṭāmûn lōʾ ʾehyeh kəʿōlălîm lōʾ-rāʾû ʾôr

Grammar Details

*ʾô*: conjunction - or
*kənēpel*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - like a miscarriage
*ṭāmûn*: verb, Qal passive participle, masculine singular - hidden
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*ʾehyeh*: verb, Qal imperfect, 1st common singular - I would be
*kəʿōlălîm*: preposition + noun, masculine plural - like infants
*lōʾ-rāʾû*: negative particle + verb, Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they did not see
*ʾôr*: noun, masculine singular - light

Word Meanings

*nēpel*: miscarriage/stillbirth/untimely birth
*ṭāmûn*: hidden/buried/concealed
*ʾehyeh*: I would be/I would have been
*ʿōlălîm*: infants/babies/children
*rāʾû*: they saw/they experienced

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Reference numbers can disrupt continuous reading
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Referenced Verses

Ps 58:8 : 8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away{H8799)}: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see{H8804)} the sun.
Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
1 Cor 15:8 : 8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

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