Bible Verse Dictionary
Job 21:17 - Distributeth
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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How oft | 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 |
is the candle | H5216 | נִיר |
[Noun Masculine] a lamp (that {is} the burner) or light (literally or figuratively) |
of the wicked | H7563 | רָשָׁע |
[Adjective] morally wrong; concretely an (actively) bad person |
put out | H1846 | דָּעַךְ |
[Verb] to be extinguished; figuratively to expire or be dried up |
and how oft | 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 |
cometh | H935 | בּוֹא |
[Verb] to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) |
their destruction | H343 | אֵיד |
[Noun Masculine] oppression; by implication {misfortune} ruin |
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 |
them God distributeth | H2505 | חָלַק |
[Verb] to be smooth (figuratively); by implication (as smooth stones were used for lots) to apportion or separate |
sorrows | H2256 | חֶבֶל |
[Noun Masculine] a rope (as {twisted }) especially a measuring line; by implication a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively a company (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin |
in his anger | H639 | אַף |
[Noun Masculine] properly the nose or nostril; hence the {face} and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.