King James Version
Job 39:2 in the King James Version says “Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?” — study this verse from Job chapter 39 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?”
Job 39:2 · KJV
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Canst thou number”
H5608properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e., (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e., celebra
“that they fulfil”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“or knowest”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
“when they bring forth”
H3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
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