Job 33:20
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חַי
chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin...
זָהַם
zâham
to be rancid, i.e. (transitively) to loathe
לֶחֶם
lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
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...
תַּאֲוָה
taʼăvâh
a longing; by implication, a delight (subjectively, satisfaction, objectively, a charm)
Key Terms in This Verse
תַּאֲוָה taʼăvâh
a longing; by implication, a delight (subjectively, satisfaction, objectively, a charm)
Study H8378 →לֶחֶם lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Study H3899 →חַי chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
Study H2416 →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 →Cross References
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto ...
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from m...
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, bu...
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