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Job 30

Job 30:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Who cut up
qataph (Hebrew #6998)
to strip off
KJV usage: crop off, cut down (up), pluck.
Pronounce: kaw-taf'
Origin: a primitive root
mallows
malluwach (Hebrew #4408)
sea-purslain (from its saltness)
KJV usage: mallows.
Pronounce: mal-loo'-akh
Origin: from 4414
by the bushes
siyach (Hebrew #7880)
a shoot (as if uttered or put forth), i.e. (generally) shrubbery
KJV usage: bush, plant, shrub.
Pronounce: see'-akh
Origin: from 7878
, and juniper
rethem (Hebrew #7574)
from 7573; the Spanish broom (from its pole-like stems)
KJV usage: juniper (tree).
Pronounce: reh'-them
Origin: or rothem {ro'-them}
roots
sheresh (Hebrew #8328)
a root (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bottom, deep, heel, root.
Pronounce: sheh'-resh
Origin: from 8327
for their meat
lechem (Hebrew #3899)
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
KJV usage: ((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also 1036.
Pronounce: lekh'-em
Origin: from 3898
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Juniper,
Mallows,
Meat

Cross References

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mallows.The Hebrew {malluäch,} in Arabic, {malluch,} and in Syriac {mallucho,} is probably the [Lalima or Lalimos] of the Greeks, and {halimus} of the Romans, which Dioscorides describes as a kind of bramble, without thorns, the leaves of which are boiled and eaten.juniper roots.The Hebrew {rothem,} in Arabic, {ratim,} and in Spanish, {retama,} most probably signifies the {genista} or broom, which is very abundant in the deserts of Arabia.for their meat.
2 Kings 4:38‑39• 38And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. And he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.
 39Then one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered from it his lap full of wild colocynths, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they did not know them. (2 Kings 4:38‑39)
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Amos 7:14• 14And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit. (Amos 7:14)
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Luke 15:16• 16And he longed to fill his belly with the husks which the swine were eating; and no one gave to him. (Luke 15:16)

J. N. Darby Translation

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They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.