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Job 29

Job 29:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I was a father
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
to the poor
'ebyown (Hebrew #34)
destitute
KJV usage: beggar, needy, poor (man).
Pronounce: eb-yone'
Origin: from 14, in the sense of want (especially in feeling)
: ande the cause
riyb (Hebrew #7379)
from 7378; a contest (personal or legal)
KJV usage: + adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.
Pronounce: reeb
Origin: or rib {reeb}
which I knew
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
not I searched out
chaqar (Hebrew #2713)
properly, to penetrate; hence, to examine intimately
KJV usage: find out, (make) search (out), seek (out), sound, try.
Pronounce: khaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
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Prov. 29:7• 7The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; the wicked understandeth not knowledge. (Prov. 29:7)

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Cross References

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a father.
Job 31:18• 18(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother's womb;) (Job 31:18)
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Esther 2:7• 7And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother--and the maiden was fair and beautiful--and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter. (Esther 2:7)
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Psa. 68:5• 5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. (Psa. 68:5)
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Eph. 5:1• 1Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children, (Eph. 5:1)
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James 1:27• 27Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27)
the cause.
Ex. 18:26• 26And they judged the people at all times: the hard matters they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged. (Ex. 18:26)
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Deut. 13:14• 14then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and if it be truth, and the thing be certain, that this abomination hath happened in the midst of thee, (Deut. 13:14)
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Deut. 17:8‑10• 8If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, matters of controversy within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and go up to the place which Jehovah thy God will choose.
 9And thou shalt come unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall declare unto thee the sentence of judgment;
 10and thou shalt do according to the tenor of the word, which they of that place which Jehovah will choose shall declare unto thee; and thou shalt take heed to do according to all that they instruct thee: (Deut. 17:8‑10)
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1 Kings 3:16‑28• 16Then came two women, harlots, to the king, and stood before him.
 17And the first woman said, Ah, my lord! I and this woman abode in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
 18And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; no stranger was with us in the house, only we two were in the house.
 19And this woman's child died in the night; because she had lain upon it.
 20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.
 21And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; and I considered it in the morning, and behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.
 22And the other woman said, No, for the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this one said, No, but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.
 23Then said the king, The one says, This that is living is my son, and thy son is the dead; and the other says, No, for thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
 24And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
 25And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
 26Then spoke the woman whose was the living child to the king, for her bowels yearned over her son, and she said, Ah, my lord! give her the living child, and in no wise put it to death. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine; divide it.
 27And the king answered and said, Give this one the living child, and in no wise put it to death: she is its mother.
 28And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice. (1 Kings 3:16‑28)
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Prov. 25:2• 2It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; but the glory of kings is to search out a thing. (Prov. 25:2)
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Prov. 29:7• 7The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; the wicked understandeth not knowledge. (Prov. 29:7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;