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Job 16

Job 16:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I also could speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
as ye do: if
luw' (Hebrew #3863)
or luw {loo}; a conditional particle; if; by implication (interj. as a wish) would that!
KJV usage: if (haply), peradventure, I pray thee, though, I would, would God (that).
Pronounce: loo
Origin: or lu {loo}
your soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
were
yesh (Hebrew #3426)
entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb (1961); there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection)
KJV usage: (there) are, (he, it, shall, there, there may, there shall, there should) be, thou do, had, hast, (which) hath, (I, shalt, that) have, (he, it, there) is, substance, it (there) was, (there) were, ye will, thou wilt, wouldest.
Pronounce: yaysh
Origin: perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist
in my soul’s
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
stead, I could heap up
chabar (Hebrew #2266)
to join (literally or figuratively); specifically (by means of spells) to fascinate
KJV usage: charm(- er), be compact, couple (together), have fellowship with, heap up, join (self, together), league.
Pronounce: khaw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
words
millah (Hebrew #4405)
a word; collectively, a discourse; figuratively, a topic
KJV usage: + answer, by-word, matter, any thing (what) to say, to speak(-ing), speak, talking, word.
Pronounce: mil-law'
Origin: from 4448 (plural masculine as if from milleh {mil-leh'}
against you, and shake
nuwa` (Hebrew #5128)
to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
KJV usage: continually, fugitive, X make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).
Pronounce: noo'-ah
Origin: a primitive root
e mine head
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
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bmow (Hebrew #1119)
in, with, by, etc.
KJV usage: for, in into, through.
Pronounce: bem-o'
Origin: prolongation for prepositional prefix
you.
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Psa. 22:7• 7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, (Psa. 22:7)

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Head,
Soul; Spirit

Cross References

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if your soul.
Job 6:2‑5,14• 2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
 3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
 5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
 14To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. (Job 6:2‑5,14)
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Matt. 7:12• 12Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. (Matt. 7:12)
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Rom. 12:15• 15Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. (Rom. 12:15)
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1 Cor. 12:26• 26And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. (1 Cor. 12:26)
up words.
Job 11:2• 2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? (Job 11:2)
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Job 35:16• 16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. (Job 35:16)
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Prov. 10:19• 19In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise. (Prov. 10:19)
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Eccl. 10:14• 14A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him? (Eccl. 10:14)
shake mine.
2 Kings 19:21• 21This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. (2 Kings 19:21)
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Psa. 22:7• 7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, (Psa. 22:7)
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Psa. 44:14• 14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. (Psa. 44:14)
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Psa. 109:25• 25I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads. (Psa. 109:25)
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Jer. 18:16• 16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. (Jer. 18:16)
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Lam. 2:15• 15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? (Lam. 2:15)
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Matt. 27:39‑40• 39And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
 40And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. (Matt. 27:39‑40)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;