Job 42:8
Old Testament • 27 words with Strong's data
"Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
שֶׁבַע
shebaʻ
seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
פַּר
par
a bullock (apparently as breaking forth in wild strength, or perhaps as dividing the hoof)
שֶׁבַע
shebaʻ
seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
אַיִל
ʼayil
properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an o...
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
אִיּוֹב
ʼÎyôwb
Ijob, the patriarch famous for his patience
קָרַב
qârab
to approach (causatively, bring near) for whatever purpose
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...
שָׂרַף
sâraph
to be (causatively, set) on fire
מִנְחָה
minchâh
a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary)
אִיּוֹב
ʼÎyôwb
Ijob, the patriarch famous for his patience
פָּלַל
pâlal
to judge (officially or mentally); by extension, to intercede, pray
רָצָה
râtsâh
to be pleased with; specifically, to satisfy adebt
בִּלְתִּי
biltîy
properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because no...
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
אַחַר
ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
נְבָלָה
nᵉbâlâh
foolishness, i.e. (morally) wickedness; concretely, a crime; by extension, punishment
דָבַר
dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
יְמָנִי
yᵉmânîy
right (i.e. at the right hand)
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
אִיּוֹב
ʼÎyôwb
Ijob, the patriarch famous for his patience
Key Terms in This Verse
נְבָלָה nᵉbâlâh
foolishness, i.e. (morally) wickedness; concretely, a crime; by extension, punishment
Study H5039 →פַּר par
a bullock (apparently as breaking forth in wild strength, or perhaps as dividing the hoof)
Study H6499 →אַיִל ʼayil
properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree
Study H352 →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
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.
Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of...
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in law before God.
So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: fo...
And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LO...
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
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