Bible Verse Dictionary
Job 31:1 - Covenant
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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I made | H3772 | כָּרַת |
[Verb] to cut ({off} down or asunder); by implication to destroy or consume; specifically to covenant (that {is} make an alliance or {bargain} originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces) |
a covenant | H1285 | בְּרִית |
[Noun Feminine] a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh) |
with mine eyes | H5869 | עַיִן |
[Noun] an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy a fountain (as the eye of the landscape) |
why | H4100 | מָה |
properly interrogitive what ? (including {how ?} why ? and when ?); but also exclamations like what ! (including {how !}) or indefinitely what (including {whatever} and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses |
then should I think | H995 | בִּין |
[Verb] to separate mentally (or {distinguish }) that {is} (generally) understand |
upon | H5921 | עַל |
[Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications |
a maid | H1330 | בְּתוּלָה |
[Noun Feminine] a virgin (from her privacy); sometimes (by continuation) a bride; also (figuratively) a city or state |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.