Job 15:14

Old Testament • 5 words with Strong's data

"What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?"

Word-by-Word Analysis

What is

אִישׁ

ʼîysh

H376

a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)

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that he should be

טָהוֹר

ṭâhôwr

H2889

pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)

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and he which is

יָלַד

yâlad

H3205

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

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of a

אִשָּׁה

ʼishshâh

H802

a woman

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that he should be

צַדִּיק

tsaddîyq

H6662

just

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Key Terms in This Verse

clean H2889

טָהוֹר ṭâhôwr

pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)

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born H3205

יָלַד yâlad

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

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righteous H6662

צַדִּיק tsaddîyq

just

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woman H802

אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh

a woman

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man H376

אִישׁ ʼîysh

a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:20 cross-reference

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Job 14:4 cross-reference

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Proverbs 20:9 cross-reference

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Romans 7:18 cross-reference

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

1 Kings 8:46 cross-reference

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or n...

Psalm 14:3 cross-reference

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

2 Chronicles 6:36 cross-reference

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or nea...

John 3:6 cross-reference

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Galatians 3:22 cross-reference

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Job 9:2 cross-reference

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

Ecclesiastes 7:29 cross-reference

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Psalm 51:5 cross-reference

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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