Job 13:12
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay."
Word-by-Word Analysis
זִכְרוֹן
zikrôwn
a memento (or memorable thing, day or writing)
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
פֶּגֶר
peger
a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image
פֶּגֶר
peger
a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image
חֹמֶר
chômer
properly, a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence, a chomer or dry measure
Key Terms in This Verse
פֶּגֶר peger
a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image
Study H6297 →פֶּגֶר peger
a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image
Study H6297 →חֹמֶר chômer
properly, a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence, a chomer or dry measure
Study H2563 →Cross References
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
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