Job 6:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֭חַי בָּגְד֣וּ כְמוֹ־נָ֑חַל כַּאֲפִ֖יק נְחָלִ֣ים יַעֲבֹֽרוּ׃

Transliteration

ʾaḥay bāgdû kəmô-nāḥal kaʾăpîq nəḥālîm yaʿăbōrû

Grammar Details

• *ʾaḥay*: noun, masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my brothers
• *bāgdû*: Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they have dealt treacherously
• *kəmô-nāḥal*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - like a wadi/stream
• *kaʾăpîq*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - like a channel of
• *nəḥālîm*: noun, masculine plural - wadis/streams
• *yaʿăbōrû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they pass away

Word Meanings

• *ʾāḥ*: brother
• *bāgad*: to act treacherously/deal faithlessly
• *naḥal*: wadi/stream/torrent
• *ʾăpîq*: channel/bed/riverbed
• *ʿābar*: to pass over/through/by

Referenced Verses

• Ps 38:11 : 11 My lovers and my friends stand{H8799)} aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand{H8804)} afar off.
• Jer 15:18 : 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
• Ps 41:9 : 9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted{H8804)}, which did eat{H8802)} of my bread, hath lifted up{H8689)} his heel against me.
• John 13:18 : 18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
• John 16:32 : 32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
• Jude 1:12 : 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
• Jer 30:14 : 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
• Mic 7:5-6 : 5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. 6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
• Ps 55:12-14 : 12 For it was not an enemy{H8802)} that reproached{H8762)} me; then I could have borne{H8799)} it: neither was it he that hated{H8764)} me that did magnify{H8689)} himself against me; then I would have hid{H8735)} myself from him: 13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance{H8794)}. 14 We took sweet{H8686)} counsel together, and walked{H8762)} unto the house of God in company.
• Ps 88:18 : 18 Lover{H8802)} and friend hast thou put far{H8689)} from me, and mine acquaintance{H8794)} into darkness.
• Jer 9:4-5 : 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
• Job 19:19 : 19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.