Job 42:5
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁמַע
shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
שָׁמַע
shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
אֹזֶן
ʼôzen
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
עַיִן
ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁמַע shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
Study H8085 →רָאָה râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
Study H7200 →עַיִן ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
Study H5869 →שָׁמַע shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
Study H8085 →Cross References
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
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