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Job 7:15 Interlinear

“chooseth strangling So that my soul and death rather than my life”

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Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	וַתִּבְחַ֣ר	H977	chooseth	properly, to try, i.e., (by implication) select
2	מַחֲנָ֣ק	H4267	strangling	choking
3	נַפְשִׁ֑י	H5315	So that my soul	properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
4	מָ֝֗וֶת	H4194	and death	death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
5	מֵֽעַצְמוֹתָֽי׃	H6106	rather than my life	a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e., (as pron.) selfsame

Job 7:15 (current)chooseth strangling So that my soul and death rather than my life