Job 38:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִ֭תְבֹּנַנְתָּ עַד־רַחֲבֵי־אָ֑רֶץ הַ֝גֵּ֗ד אִם־יָדַ֥עְתָּ כֻלָּֽהּ׃

Transliteration

?-hitbōnantā unto-raḥăbê-ʾāreṣ haggēd if-yādaʿtā all-of-her.

Grammar Details

*hă*: interrogative particle - ?
*hitbōnantā*: hithpolel perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you have considered/understood
*ʿad*: preposition - unto/to
*raḥăbê*: noun, masculine plural construct - breadths/expanses of
*ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - earth/land
*haggēd*: hiphil imperative, masculine singular - declare/tell
*ʾim*: conditional particle - if
*yādaʿtā*: qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you have known
*kullāh*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - all of it/her

Word Meanings

*hitbōnantā*: you have considered/you have understood/you have perceived
*raḥăbê*: breadths/expanses/wide spaces
*ʾāreṣ*: earth/land/ground
*yādaʿtā*: you have known/you understand

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Reference numbers can disrupt continuous reading
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Referenced Verses

Job 28:24 : 24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
Ps 74:17 : 17 Thou hast set{H8689)} all the borders of the earth: thou hast made{H8804)} summer and winter.
Ps 89:11-12 : 11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded{H8804)} them. 12 The north and the south thou hast created{H8804)} them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice{H8762)} in thy name.
Isa 40:28 : 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Jer 31:37 : 37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
Rev 20:9 : 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

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