Job 39:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁר־שַׂ֣מְתִּי עֲרָבָ֣ה בֵית֑וֹ וּֽמִשְׁכְּנוֹתָ֥יו מְלֵֽחָה׃

Transliteration

ʾăšer-śamtî ʿărābāh bêtô û-mišḵənôtāyw məlēḥāh

Grammar Details

*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/which/that
*śamtî*: qal perfect, 1st person common singular - I set/placed
*ʿărābāh*: feminine singular absolute - desert plain/wilderness
*bêtô*: masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his house
*û*: conjunction - and
*mišḵənôtāyw*: masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his dwelling places
*məlēḥāh*: feminine singular absolute - salt land/barren place

Word Meanings

*ʾăšer*: who/which/that
*śamtî*: I set/placed/established
*ʿărābāh*: desert plain/wilderness/steppe
*bêtô*: his house/home/dwelling
*mišḵənôtāyw*: his dwelling places/habitations
*məlēḥāh*: salt land/barren place/salt marsh

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Jer 2:24 : 24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
Jer 17:6 : 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Deut 29:23 : 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Job 24:5 : 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
Ezek 47:11 : 11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
Hos 8:9 : 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

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