Job 33:22

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתִּקְרַ֣ב לַשַּׁ֣חַת נַפְשׁ֑וֹ וְ֝חַיָּת֗וֹ לַֽמְמִתִֽים׃

Transliteration

wattiqrab laššaḥat napšô wəḥayyātô lamməmîtîm

Grammar Details

• *wattiqrab*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - and she draws near
• *laššaḥat*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - to the pit
• *napšô*: noun, feminine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his soul
• *wəḥayyātô*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and his life
• *lamməmîtîm*: preposition + definite article + hiphil participle, masculine plural - to the ones causing death

Word Meanings

• *tiqrab*: draws near/approaches/comes close
• *šaḥat*: pit/grave/corruption
• *napšô*: his soul/his life/his being
• *ḥayyātô*: his life/his living being/his existence
• *məmîtîm*: ones causing death/destroyers/angels of death

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 24:16 : 16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
• Job 7:7 : 7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
• Job 15:21 : 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
• Job 17:1 : 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
• Job 17:13-16 : 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
• Job 33:28 : 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
• Ps 17:4 : 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
• Ps 30:3 : 3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
• Ps 88:3-5 : 3 For my soul is full{H8804)} of troubles: and my life draweth nigh{H8689)} unto the grave. 4 I am counted{H8738)} with them that go down{H8802)} into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead{H8801)}, like the slain that lie{H8802)} in the grave, whom thou rememberest{H8804)} no more: and they are cut off{H8738)} from thy hand.
• Isa 38:10 : 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
• Acts 12:23 : 23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
• 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
• Rev 9:11 : 11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
• Exod 12:23 : 23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
• 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.