Job 42:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְחִ֤י אִיּוֹב֙ אַֽחֲרֵי־זֹ֔את מֵאָ֥ה וְאַרְבָּעִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיִּרְאֶ֗ה אֶת־בָּנָיו֙ וְאֶת־בְּנֵ֣י בָנָ֔יו אַרְבָּעָ֖ה דֹּרֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

And wayǝḥî ʾIyyôb after-zōʾt one hundred and-forty šānâ and wayyirʾeh ʾet-bānāyw and-ʾet-bǝnê bānāyw four dōrôt

Grammar Details

*wayǝḥî*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - and he lived
*ʾIyyôb*: proper noun, masculine singular - Job
*zōʾt*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
*šānâ*: noun, feminine singular - year
*wayyirʾeh*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - and he saw
*bānāyw*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his sons
*bǝnê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons of
*dōrôt*: noun, masculine plural - generations

Word Meanings

*wayǝḥî*: and he lived/and he survived
*zōʾt*: this/these things
*šānâ*: year/years
*wayyirʾeh*: and he saw/and he beheld/and he witnessed
*bānāyw*: his sons/his male children
*bǝnê*: sons of/children of
*dōrôt*: generations/ages

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 50:23 : 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
Ps 128:6 : 6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
Prov 17:6 : 6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Gen 50:26 : 26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Deut 34:7 : 7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Josh 24:29 : 29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
Ps 90:10 : 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off{H8804)}, and we fly away{H8799)}.
Gen 11:32 : 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Gen 25:7 : 7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Gen 35:28 : 28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
Gen 47:28 : 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

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