Job 30:29

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָ֭ח הָיִ֣יתִי לְתַנִּ֑ים וְ֝רֵ֗עַ לִבְנ֥וֹת יַעֲנָֽה

Transliteration

ʾāḥ I hāyîṯî to tannîm, and rēaʿ to ḇənôṯ yaʿănâ

Grammar Details

*ʾāḥ*: noun, masculine singular - brother
*hāyîṯî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have become/was
*lə-tannîm*: preposition with noun, masculine plural - to jackals/dragons
*wə-rēaʿ*: conjunction with noun, masculine singular - and companion/friend
*li-ḇənôṯ*: preposition with noun, feminine plural construct - to daughters of
*yaʿănâ*: noun, feminine singular - ostrich

Word Meanings

*ʾāḥ*: brother/kinsman
*hāyîṯî*: have become/was/am
*tannîm*: jackals/dragons/wild dogs
*rēaʿ*: companion/friend/associate
*ḇənôṯ yaʿănâ*: daughters of ostrich/ostriches/female ostriches

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Mic 1:8 : 8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
Ps 102:6 : 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Isa 13:21-22 : 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Job 17:14 : 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Ps 44:19 : 19 Though thou hast sore broken{H8765)} us in the place of dragons, and covered{H8762)} us with the shadow of death.
Mal 1:3 : 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

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