Job 16:4
Old Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you."
Word-by-Word Analysis
דָבַר
dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
תַּחַת
tachath
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.
גַּל
gal
something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
רָעַשׁ
râʻash
to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.; also a field of grain), particularly through fear; specifically, to spring (as a locust)
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Key Terms in This Verse
גַּל gal
something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
Study H1530 →רָעַשׁ râʻash
to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.; also a field of grain), particularly through fear; specifically, to spring (as a locust)
Study H7493 →תַּחַת tachath
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.
Study H8478 →רֹאשׁ rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Study H7218 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →דָבַר dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Study H1696 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →קִרְאָה qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Study H7125 →Cross References
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth b...
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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