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Job 1:16 Interlinear

While he was yet speaking there came also another and said The fire of God is fallen from heaven and hath burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them and I only am escaped alone to tell

Word-by-Word Analysis

#OriginalStrong'sEnglishDefinition
1ע֣וֹד׀H5750properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
2זֶ֣הH2088the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that
3מְדַבֵּ֗רH1696While he was yet speakingperhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
4וְזֶה֮H2088the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that
5בָּ֣אH935there cameto go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
6וַיֹּאמַר֒H559also another and saidto say (used with great latitude)
7אֵ֣שׁH784The firefire (literally or figuratively)
8אֱלֹהִ֗יםH430of Godgods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
9נָֽפְלָה֙H5307is fallento fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
10מִןH4480properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses
11הַשָּׁמַ֔יִםH8064from heaventhe sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
12וַתִּבְעַ֥רH1197and hath burned upto be(-come) brutish
13בַּצֹּ֛אןH6629the sheepa collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
14וּבַנְּעָרִ֖יםH5288and the servants(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latit
15וַתֹּֽאכְלֵ֑םH398and consumedto eat (literally or figuratively)
16וָאִמָּ֨לְטָ֧הH4422them and I only am escapedproperly, to be smooth, i.e., (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth youn
17רַקH7535properly, leanness, i.e., (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
18אֲנִ֛יH589i
19לְבַדִּ֖יH905properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of a tree, bar for carrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with preposit
20לְהַגִּ֥ידH5046alone to tellproperly, to front, i.e., stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to
21לָֽךְ׃H0

Verse Context

Job 1:15fell And the Sabeans upon them and took them away the servants yea they have slain...
Job 1:16 (current) While he was yet speaking there came also another and said The fire of God is fallen from heaven and hath burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them and I only am escaped alone to tell
Job 1:17 While he was yet speaking there came also another and said...

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