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Job 19

Job 19:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Myn bone
`etsem (Hebrew #6106)
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
KJV usage: body, bone, X life, (self-)same, strength, X very.
Pronounce: eh'tsem
Origin: from 6105
cleaveth
dabaq (Hebrew #1692)
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
KJV usage: abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined (together), keep (fast), overtake, pursue hard, stick, take.
Pronounce: daw-bak'
Origin: a primitive root
to my skin
`owr (Hebrew #5785)
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
KJV usage: hide, leather, skin.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 5783
and to my flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
, and I am escaped
malat (Hebrew #4422)
properly, to be smooth, i.e. (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth young, emit sparks
KJV usage: deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, X speedily, X surely.
Pronounce: maw-lat'
Origin: a primitive root
with the skin
`owr (Hebrew #5785)
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
KJV usage: hide, leather, skin.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 5783
of my teeth
shen (Hebrew #8127)
a tooth (as sharp); specifically (for 8143) ivory; figuratively, a cliff
KJV usage: crag, X forefront, ivory, X sharp, tooth.
Pronounce: shane
Origin: from 8150
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Psa. 102:5• 5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh. (Psa. 102:5)

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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bone.
Job 30:30• 30My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat. (Job 30:30)
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Job 33:19‑22• 19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and with constant strife in his bones;
 20And his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty food;
 21His flesh is consumed away from view, and his bones that were not seen stick out;
 22And his soul draweth near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers. (Job 33:19‑22)
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Psa. 22:14‑17• 14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.
 16For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
 17I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me; (Psa. 22:14‑17)
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Psa. 32:3‑4• 3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
 4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:3‑4)
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Psa. 38:3• 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin. (Psa. 38:3)
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Psa. 102:3,5• 3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
 5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh. (Psa. 102:3,5)
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Lam. 4:8• 8Their visage is darker than blackness, they are not known in the streets; their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is withered, it is become like a stick. (Lam. 4:8)
and to.
or, as.
and I am.
Job 2:4‑6• 4And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life;
 5but put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and see if he will not curse thee to thy face!
 6And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life. (Job 2:4‑6)
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Job 7:5• 5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates. (Job 7:5)
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Lam. 3:4• 4My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones. (Lam. 3:4)
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Lam. 5:10• 10Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine. (Lam. 5:10)
• He has barely escaped death thus far, as by the skin of his teeth; that is, everything is eaten away except the slight covering about their roots. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.