Job 33:28
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light."
Word-by-Word Analysis
נָצַל
nâtsal
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
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...
הָלַךְ
hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
בּוֹר
bôwr
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
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...
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
אוֹר
ʼôwr
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Key Terms in This Verse
הָלַךְ hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Study H1980 →אוֹר ʼôwr
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Study H216 →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 →רָאָה râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
Study H7200 →Cross References
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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.
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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