Job 4:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַ֭יִשׁ אֹבֵ֣ד מִבְּלִי־טָ֑רֶף וּבְנֵ֥י לָ֝בִ֗יא יִתְפָּרָֽדוּ׃

Transliteration

layiš ʾōbēd from mibblî-ṭārep and û-bənê lābîʾ yitpārādû

Grammar Details

*layiš*: noun, masculine singular - lion (old lion)
*ʾōbēd*: Qal participle, masculine singular - perishing
*mibblî-ṭārep*: preposition + noun, masculine singular + noun, masculine singular - from lack of prey
*û-bənê*: waw conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct - and sons/children of
*lābîʾ*: noun, feminine singular - lioness
*yitpārādû*: Hithpael imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they are scattered

Word Meanings

*layiš*: lion (old lion)/Laish (place name)
*ʾōbēd*: perishing/wandering/being lost
*mibblî-ṭārep*: from lack of prey/food
*bənê*: sons/children/young
*lābîʾ*: lioness/great lion
*yitpārādû*: to be scattered/separated/divided

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Referenced Verses

Ps 34:10 : 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Jer 4:7 : 7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Hos 11:10 : 10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
2 Tim 4:17 : 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Gen 49:9 : 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Num 23:24 : 24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Num 24:9 : 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Job 1:19 : 19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 8:3-4 : 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
Job 27:14-15 : 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
Job 38:39 : 39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
Ps 7:2 : 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

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