Job 30:3
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מַחְסוֹר
machçôwr
deficiency; hence, impoverishment
יָחִיד
yâchîyd
properly, united, i.e. sole; by implication, beloved; also lonely; (feminine) the life (as not to be replaced)
מִדְבָּר
midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
רִאשׁוֹן
riʼshôwn
first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
עֵת
ʻêth
time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.
שָׁמֵם
shâmêm
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
חָרַב
chârab
to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
Key Terms in This Verse
יָחִיד yâchîyd
properly, united, i.e. sole; by implication, beloved; also lonely; (feminine) the life (as not to be replaced)
Study H3173 →חָרַב chârab
to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
Study H2717 →שָׁמֵם shâmêm
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
Study H8074 →מִדְבָּר midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
Study H4057 →Cross References
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
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