Job 42:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְשֵֽׁמַע־אֹ֥זֶן שְׁמַעְתִּ֑יךָ וְ֝עַתָּ֗ה עֵינִ֥י רָאָֽתְךָ׃

Transliteration

For-šēmaʿ-ʾōzen šəmaʿtîkā and-ʿattâ ʿênî rāʾātǝkā

Grammar Details

*šēmaʿ*: noun, masculine singular construct - hearing
*ʾōzen*: noun, feminine singular - ear
*šəmaʿtîkā*: Qal perfect, 1st singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - I heard you
*ʿattâ*: adverb - now
*ʿênî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st singular suffix - my eye
*rāʾātǝkā*: Qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - it has seen you

Word Meanings

*šēmaʿ*: hearing/report
*ʾōzen*: ear/hearing
*šəmaʿtîkā*: I heard you/I listened to you
*ʿattâ*: now/at this time
*ʿênî*: my eye
*rāʾātǝkā*: has seen you/perceives you/beholds you

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Rom 10:17 : 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
John 1:18 : 18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Isa 6:1 : 1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Isa 6:5 : 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Eph 1:17-18 : 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
John 12:41 : 41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
John 12:45 : 45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
Acts 7:55-56 : 55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
Num 12:6-8 : 6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. 7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. 8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Job 4:12 : 12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Job 23:8-9 : 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
Job 26:14 : 14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Job 28:22 : 22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Job 33:16 : 16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,

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