Job 8:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֹדֶ֣נּוּ בְ֭אִבּוֹ לֹ֣א יִקָּטֵ֑ף וְלִפְנֵ֖י כָל־חָצִ֣יר יִיבָֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

While ʿōdennû bĕʾibbô lōʾ yiqqāṭēp wĕ-lipnê ḵol-ḥāṣîr yîbāš

Grammar Details

*ʿōdennû*: adverb + 3rd masculine singular suffix - while it still
*bĕʾibbô*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - in its freshness
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*yiqqāṭēp*: niphal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - it is cut/plucked
*wĕ-lipnê*: conjunction + preposition + plural construct - and before
*ḵol*: noun masculine singular construct - all of
*ḥāṣîr*: noun masculine singular - grass/herb
*yîbāš*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - it dries up/withers

Word Meanings

*ʿōd*: still/yet/again
*ʾēb*: freshness/greenness/budding
*yiqqāṭēp*: be cut/be plucked/be picked
*lipnê*: before/in front of
*ḥāṣîr*: grass/herb/hay
*yîbāš*: dry up/wither/be dry

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

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.
Matt 13:20 : 20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
Ps 129:6-7 : 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

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