Job 3:5
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
חֹשֶׁךְ
chôshek
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
מָוֶת
mâveth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
גָּאַל
gâʼal
to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow, etc.)
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
עָנָן
ʻânân
a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloud
יָשַׁב
yâshab
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
כִּמְרִיר
kimrîyr
obscuration (as if from shrinkage of light, i.e. an eclipse (only in plural)
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...
חָתַת
châthath
properly, to prostrate; hence, to break down, either (literally) by violence, or (figuratively) by confusion and fear
Key Terms in This Verse
גָּאַל gâʼal
to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow, etc.)
Study H1350 →חָתַת châthath
properly, to prostrate; hence, to break down, either (literally) by violence, or (figuratively) by confusion and fear
Study H2865 →כִּמְרִיר kimrîyr
obscuration (as if from shrinkage of light, i.e. an eclipse (only in plural)
Study H3650 →עָנָן ʻânân
a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloud
Study H6051 →חֹשֶׁךְ chôshek
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
Study H2822 →יָשַׁב yâshab
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
Study H3427 →מָוֶת mâveth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
Study H4194 →Cross References
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shado...
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the...
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross da...
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an onl...
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon ...
A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be a...
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
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