Job 38:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַל־מָ֭ה אֲדָנֶ֣יהָ הָטְבָּ֑עוּ א֥וֹ מִֽי־יָ֝רָ֗ה אֶ֣בֶן פִּנָּתָֽהּ׃

Transliteration

Upon-what ʾădāneyhā hāṭbāʿû? Or who-yārâ ʾeben pinnātāh?

Grammar Details

*ʿal*: preposition - upon/on
*mâ*: interrogative pronoun - what?
*ʾădāneyhā*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her bases/foundations
*hāṭbāʿû*: hophal perfect, 3rd common plural - they were sunk/fastened
*ʾô*: conjunction - or
*mî*: interrogative pronoun - who?
*yārâ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - laid/cast/threw
*ʾeben*: noun, feminine singular - stone
*pinnātāh*: noun, feminine singular construct with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her cornerstone

Word Meanings

*ʾădāneyhā*: her bases/her foundations/her pillars
*hāṭbāʿû*: they were sunk/they were fastened/they were embedded
*yārâ*: laid/cast/threw/placed
*pinnātāh*: her cornerstone/her corner

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Referenced Verses

Job 26:7 : 7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Ps 104:5 : 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Ps 118:22 : 22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
Isa 28:16 : 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Ps 93:1 : 1 The LORD reigneth{H8804)}, he is clothed{H8804)} with majesty; the LORD is clothed{H8804)} with strength, wherewith he hath girded{H8694)} himself: the world also is stablished{H8735)}, that it cannot be moved{H8735)}.
2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Zech 12:1 : 1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Eph 2:20-21 : 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Ps 24:2 : 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Exod 26:18-25 : 18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward. 19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. 20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards: 21 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards. 23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. 24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. 25 And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
1 Sam 2:8 : 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
Ps 144:12 : 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

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