Job 17:1
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רוּחַ
rûwach
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the ...
שָׁחַת
shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
דָּעַךְ
dâʻak
to be extinguished; figuratively, to expire or be dried up
כּוּן
kûwn
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, ...
Key Terms in This Verse
דָּעַךְ dâʻak
to be extinguished; figuratively, to expire or be dried up
Study H1846 →שָׁחַת shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
Study H7843 →רוּחַ rûwach
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational...
Study H7307 →כּוּן kûwn
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render su...
Study H3559 →יוֹם yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
Study H3117 →Cross References
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
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