Hebrew Interlinear

Job 28:3 Interlinear

“an end He setteth to darkness all perfection and searcheth out the stones of darkness and the shadow of death”

Test your knowledge of this chapter

Job 28 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	קֵ֤ץ׀	H7093	an end	an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after
2	שָׂ֤ם	H7760	He setteth	to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
3	לַחֹ֗שֶׁךְ	H2822	to darkness	the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
4	וּֽלְכָל	H3605		properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
5	תַּ֭כְלִית	H8503	all perfection	completion; by implication, an extremity
6	ה֣וּא	H1931		he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
7	חוֹקֵ֑ר	H2713	and searcheth out	properly, to penetrate; hence, to examine intimately
8	אֶ֖בֶן	H68	the stones	a stone
9	אֹ֣פֶל	H652	of darkness	dusk
10	וְצַלְמָֽוֶת׃	H6757	and the shadow of death	shade of death, i.e., the grave (figuratively, calamity)

Job 28:3 (current)an end He setteth to darkness all perfection and searcheth out the stones of darkness and the shadow of death