Job 38:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲנִגְל֣וּ לְ֭ךָ שַׁעֲרֵי־מָ֑וֶת וְשַׁעֲרֵ֖י צַלְמָ֣וֶת תִּרְאֶֽה׃

Transliteration

?-niglû to-you šaʿărê-māwet and-šaʿărê ṣalmāwet tirʾeh?

Grammar Details

*hă*: interrogative particle - ?
*niglû*: niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - they were revealed/uncovered
*lə*: preposition - to
*kā*: 2nd masculine singular suffix - you
*šaʿărê*: noun, masculine plural construct - gates of
*māwet*: noun, masculine singular - death
*wə*: conjunction - and
*ṣalmāwet*: noun, masculine singular - deep darkness/shadow of death
*tirʾeh*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you see/will see

Word Meanings

*niglû*: they were revealed/they were uncovered/they were disclosed
*šaʿărê*: gates/doors/entrances
*māwet*: death/dying
*ṣalmāwet*: deep darkness/shadow of death/thick darkness

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 9:13 : 13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Ps 107:18 : 18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job 12:22 : 22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Amos 5:8 : 8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
Matt 4:16 : 16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Ps 107:10 : 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Ps 107:14 : 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

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