King James Version
Job 1:14 in the King James Version says “And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:” — study this verse from Job chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:”
Job 1:14 · KJV
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD. power: Heb. hand
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
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 thee. The fire: or, A great fire
KJV Study — Public Domain
“a messenger”
H4397a messenger; specifically, of god, i.e., an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)
“The oxen”
H1241a beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“were plowing”
H2790to scratch, i.e., (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad
“feeding”
H7462to tend a flock; i.e., pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a frie
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“beside”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
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