Hebrew Interlinear

Job 21:18 Interlinear

“ They are as stubble before the wind and as chaff carrieth away that the storm”

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Job 21 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	יִהְי֗וּ	H1961		to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
2	כְּתֶ֥בֶן	H8401	They are as stubble	properly, material, i.e., (specifically) refuse haum or stalks of grain (as chopped in threshing and used for fodder)
3	לִפְנֵי	H6440	before	the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
4	ר֑וּחַ	H7307	the wind	wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
5	וּ֝כְמֹ֗ץ	H4671	and as chaff	chaff (as pressed out, i.e., winnowed or (rather) threshed loose)
6	גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ	H1589	carrieth away	to thieve (literally or figuratively); by implication, to deceive
7	סוּפָֽה׃	H5492	that the storm	a hurricane

Job 21:18 (current) They are as stubble before the wind and as chaff carrieth away that the storm