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Job 30

Job 30:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For want
checer (Hebrew #2639)
lack; hence, destitution
KJV usage: poverty, want.
Pronounce: kheh'-ler
Origin: from 2637
and famine
kaphan (Hebrew #3720)
hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain)
KJV usage: famine.
Pronounce: kaw-fawn'
Origin: from 3719
they were σsolitary
galmuwd (Hebrew #1565)
sterile (as wrapped up too hard); figuratively, desolate
KJV usage: desolate, solitary.
Pronounce: gal-mood'
Origin: probably by prolonged from 1563
; fleeing
'araq (Hebrew #6207)
to gnaw, i.e. (figuratively) eat (by hyberbole); also (participle) a pain
KJV usage: fleeing, sinew.
Pronounce: aw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
into the wilderness
tsiyah (Hebrew #6723)
aridity; concretely, a desert
KJV usage: barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.
Pronounce: tsee-yaw'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to parch
τin former time
'emesh (Hebrew #570)
time past, i.e. yesterday or last night
KJV usage: former time, yesterday(-night)
Pronounce: eh'-mesh
desolate
show' (Hebrew #7722)
or shoah {sho-aw'}; from an unused root meaning to rush over; a tempest; by implication, devastation
KJV usage: desolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.
Pronounce: sho
Origin: or (feminine) showtah {sho-aw'}
and waste
mshow'ah (Hebrew #4875)
from the same as 7722; (a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck)
KJV usage: desolation, waste.
Pronounce: meh-o-aw'
Origin: or mshoah {mesh-o-aw'}
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σ
or, dark as the night.
τ
yesternight.

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Famine,
Wilderness

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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solitary.
or, dark as the night.
Job 24:13‑16• 13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
 14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
 15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
 16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. (Job 24:13‑16)
fleeing into.
Job 24:5• 5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. (Job 24:5)
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Heb. 11:38• 38(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. (Heb. 11:38)
in former time.
Heb. yesternight.
• {v.3-4} Withered up from hunger, they gnaw the roots of weeds growing in the waste which for long has ceased to yield true food for man. The mallows, or salt wort, and the sedge, or juniper, have become their food. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Withered up through want and hunger, they flee intod waste places long since desolate and desert:

JND Translation Notes

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Or "they gnaw."