Job 31:7
Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
הָפַךְ
hâphak
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
לֵב
lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
הָלַךְ
hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
אַחַר
ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
עַיִן
ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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)
מָחָה
mâchâh
properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to
דָּבַק
dâbaq
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
Key Terms in This Verse
דָּבַק dâbaq
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
Study H1692 →מָחָה mâchâh
properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to
Study H4229 →הָלַךְ hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Study H1980 →הָפַךְ hâphak
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
Study H2015 →עַיִן ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
Study H5869 →Cross References
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye...
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things...
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shuttet...
For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniqu...
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, ...
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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