Job 6:27

Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data

"Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend."

Word-by-Word Analysis

אִלּוּ

ʼillûw

H432

nay, i.e. (softened) if

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ye

נָפַל

nâphal

H5307

to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)

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the

יָתוֹם

yâthôwm

H3490

a bereaved person

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and ye

חָתַר

châthar

H2864

to force a passage, as by burglary; figuratively, with oars

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בּוֹר

bôwr

H953

a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)

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for your

רֵעַ

rêaʻ

H7453

an associate (more or less close)

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Key Terms in This Verse

overwhelm H5307

נָפַל nâphal

to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)

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dig H2864

חָתַר châthar

to force a passage, as by burglary; figuratively, with oars

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fatherless H3490

יָתוֹם yâthôwm

a bereaved person

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friend H7453

רֵעַ rêaʻ

an associate (more or less close)

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pit H953

בּוֹר bôwr

a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)

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Yea H432

אִלּוּ ʼillûw

nay, i.e. (softened) if

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Cross References

Job 24:9 cross-reference

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

2 Peter 2:3 cross-reference

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

Nahum 3:10 cross-reference

Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bo...

Psalm 7:15 cross-reference

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

James 1:27 cross-reference

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Job 22:9 cross-reference

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 24:3 cross-reference

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Joel 3:3 cross-reference

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Ezekiel 22:7 cross-reference

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Job 31:17 cross-reference

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

Jeremiah 18:22 cross-reference

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Jeremiah 18:20 cross-reference

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Psalm 82:3 cross-reference

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Malachi 3:5 cross-reference

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his...

Psalm 57:6 cross-reference

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

Job 31:21 cross-reference

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Job 29:12 cross-reference

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

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