Job 30:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּחֶ֥סֶר וּבְכָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה

Transliteration

In ḥeser and in ḵāp̄ān galmûḏ the ʿōrəqîm ṣiyyâ, ʾemeš šôʾâ and məšōʾâ

Grammar Details

*bə-ḥeser*: preposition with noun, masculine singular - in want/lack
*û-ḇə-ḵāp̄ān*: conjunction with preposition with noun, masculine singular - and in famine/hunger
*galmûḏ*: adjective, masculine singular - barren/desolate/solitary
*ha-ʿōrəqîm*: definite article with verb, qal participle, masculine plural - the fleeing ones/gnawing
*ṣiyyâ*: noun, feminine singular - dry/arid land/desert
*ʾemeš*: adverb - yesterday/recently/formerly
*šôʾâ*: noun, feminine singular - devastation/ruin/storm
*û-məšōʾâ*: conjunction with noun, feminine singular - and desolation/waste

Word Meanings

*ḥeser*: want/need/lack/poverty
*ḵāp̄ān*: famine/hunger/starvation
*galmûḏ*: barren/desolate/solitary/lifeless
*ʿōrəqîm*: fleeing ones/gnawing/those who gnaw
*ṣiyyâ*: dry land/desert/wilderness
*ʾemeš*: yesterday/recently/formerly/at night
*šôʾâ*: devastation/ruin/storm/waste
*məšōʾâ*: desolation/waste/ruin

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 24:5 : 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
Job 24:13-16 : 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
Heb 11:38 : 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

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