Bible Verse Dictionary
Job 3:20 - Wherefore
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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Wherefore | 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 light | H216 | אוֹר |
[Noun Feminine] illumination or (concretely) luminary (in every {sense} including {lightning} {happiness } etc.) |
given | H5414 | נָתַן |
[Verb] to {give} used with great latitude of application ({put } {make } etc.) |
to him that is in misery | H6001 | עָמֵל |
[Noun Masculine] toiling; concretely a laborer; figuratively sorrowful |
and life | H2416 | חַי |
[Adjective] alive; hence raw (flesh); fresh ({plant} {water} {year}) strong; also (as {noun} especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living {thing}) whether literally or figuratively |
unto the bitter | H4751 | מַר |
[Adjective] bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) {bitterness} or (adverbially) bitterly |
in soul | H5315 | נֶפֶשׁ |
[Noun Feminine] properly a breathing {creature} that {is} animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a {literal} accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.