Job 31:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י אֵ֣שׁ הִ֭יא עַד־אֲבַדּ֣וֹן תֹּאכֵ֑ל וּֽבְכָל־תְּב֖וּאָתִ֣י תְשָׁרֵֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

For ʾēš hîʾ unto-ʾăbaddôn tōʾkēl and-in-all-təḇûʾātî təšārēš

Grammar Details

*ʾēš*: noun, feminine singular - fire
*hîʾ*: pronoun, 3rd person feminine singular - she/it (feminine)
*ʾăbaddôn*: noun, masculine singular - destruction/Abaddon
*tōʾkēl*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it consumes
*təḇûʾātî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my harvest/produce
*təšārēš*: verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it uproots

Word Meanings

*ʾēš*: fire/flame
*ʾăbaddôn*: destruction/place of destruction/Abaddon
*tōʾkēl*: consumes/devours/eats
*təḇûʾātî*: my harvest/my produce/my increase
*təšārēš*: uproots/roots out/eradicates

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Prov 6:27 : 27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Jer 5:7-9 : 7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. 8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. 9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Job 15:30 : 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
Job 20:28 : 28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Job 26:6 : 6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Prov 3:33 : 33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

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