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Job 9

Job 9:30 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ifx I wash
rachats (Hebrew #7364)
to lave (the whole or a part of a thing)
KJV usage: bathe (self), wash (self).
Pronounce: raw-khats'
Origin: a primitive root
myself with
sheleg (Hebrew #7950)
snow (probably from its whiteness)
KJV usage: snow(-y).
Pronounce: sheh'-leg
Origin: from 7949
snow water
bmow (Hebrew #1119)
in, with, by, etc.
KJV usage: for, in into, through.
Pronounce: bem-o'
Origin: prolongation for prepositional prefix
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
, and make my hands
kaph (Hebrew #3709)
the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power
KJV usage: branch, + foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.
Pronounce: kaf
Origin: from 3721
never
bor (Hebrew #1253)
vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap for washing, or a flux for metals
KJV usage: X never so, purely.
Pronounce: bore
Origin: the same as 1252
bor (Hebrew #1252)
purify
KJV usage: cleanness, pureness.
Pronounce: bore
Origin: from 1305
so clean
zakak (Hebrew #2141)
to be transparent or clean (phys. or morally)
KJV usage: be (make) clean, be pure(-r).
Pronounce: zaw-kak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2135)
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Jer. 2:22• 22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. (Jer. 2:22)

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Cross References

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Psa. 26:6• 6I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord: (Psa. 26:6)
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Prov. 28:13• 13He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. (Prov. 28:13)
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Isa. 1:16‑18• 16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
 17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
 18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isa. 1:16‑18)
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Jer. 2:22• 22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. (Jer. 2:22)
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Jer. 4:14• 14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? (Jer. 4:14)
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Rom. 10:3• 3For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. (Rom. 10:3)
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1 John 1:8• 8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. (1 John 1:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in puritya,

JND Translation Notes

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Or "with lye."