Job 37:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־לְשֵׁ֥בֶט אִם־לְאַרְצ֑וֹ אִם־לְ֝חֶ֗סֶד יַמְצִאֵֽהוּ׃

Transliteration

ʾim-lə-šēbeṭ ʾim-lə-ʾarṣô ʾim-lə-ḥesed yamṣiʾēhû

Grammar Details

• *ʾim*: conditional particle - if/whether/or
• *lə-šēbeṭ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - for rod/punishment/tribe
• *lə-ʾarṣô*: preposition + noun, feminine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - for his land
• *lə-ḥesed*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - for lovingkindness/mercy
• *yamṣiʾēhû*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - he causes it to find/come

Word Meanings

• *šēbeṭ*: rod/punishment/tribe/correction
• *ḥesed*: lovingkindness/mercy/steadfast love/covenant faithfulness
• *yamṣiʾēhû*: causes it to find/brings it/makes it happen

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 18:45 : 45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
• 1 Sam 12:18-19 : 18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. 19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
• Job 38:26-27 : 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
• Ezra 10:9 : 9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
• Job 36:31 : 31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
• Job 37:6 : 6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
• Job 38:37-38 : 37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, 38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
• Joel 2:23 : 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
• 2 Sam 21:10 : 10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
• 2 Sam 21:14 : 14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.
• Exod 9:18-25 : 18 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now. 19 Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. 20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: 21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field. 22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.