King James Version
Job 41:2 in the King James Version says “Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?” — study this verse from Job chapter 41 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?”
Job 41:2 · KJV
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? leviathan: That is, a whale or a whirlepoole which: Heb. which thou drownest?
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Canst thou put”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“into his nose”
H639properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
“or bore”
H5344to puncture, literally (to perforate, with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify, designate, libel)
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