Job 8:9
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)"
Word-by-Word Analysis
תְּמוֹל
tᵉmôwl
properly, ago, i.e. a (short or long) time since; especially yesterday, or day before yesterday
יָדַע
yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o...
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Key Terms in This Verse
תְּמוֹל tᵉmôwl
properly, ago, i.e. a (short or long) time since; especially yesterday, or day before yesterday
Study H8543 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →יָדַע yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, in...
Study H3045 →יוֹם yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
Study H3117 →פָּנִים pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Study H6440 →Cross References
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the...
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
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