Job 1:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִנֵּה֩ ר֨וּחַ גְּדוֹלָ֜ה בָּ֣אָה ׀ מֵעֵ֣בֶר הַמִּדְבָּ֗ר וַיִּגַּע֙ בְּאַרְבַּע֙ פִּנּ֣וֹת הַבַּ֔יִת וַיִּפֹּ֥ל עַל־הַנְּעָרִ֖ים וַיָּמ֑וּתוּ וָאִמָּ֨לְטָ֧ה רַק־אֲנִ֛י לְבַדִּ֖י לְהַגִּ֥יד לָֽךְ׃

Transliteration

and-hinnēh rûaḥ gədôlâ bāʾâ from-ʿēber the-midbār wa-yiggaʿ in-four pinnôt the-bayit wa-yippōl on-the-nəʿārîm wa-yāmûtû wā-ʾimmālṭâ only-I ləbaddî lə-haggîd to-you

Grammar Details

• *hinnēh*: demonstrative particle - behold
• *rûaḥ*: feminine singular noun - wind
• *gədôlâ*: feminine singular adjective - great
• *bāʾâ*: qal perfect 3rd feminine singular - came
• *ʿēber*: masculine singular construct - across/beyond
• *midbār*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the wilderness
• *wa-yiggaʿ*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and struck
• *pinnôt*: feminine plural construct - corners of
• *bayit*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the house
• *wa-yippōl*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and fell
• *nəʿārîm*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the young people
• *wa-yāmûtû*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and they died
• *wā-ʾimmālṭâ*: conjunction + niphal imperfect 1st common singular cohortative - and I escaped
• *ləbaddî*: preposition + masculine singular noun + 1st common singular suffix - by myself
• *lə-haggîd*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct - to tell

Word Meanings

• *rûaḥ gədôlâ*: great wind/strong wind/tempest
• *mē-ʿēber ha-midbār*: from across the wilderness/from beyond the desert
• *yiggaʿ*: struck/touched/hit
• *pinnôt*: corners/sides
• *nəʿārîm*: young people/young men/servants (here referring to Job's children)

Referenced Verses

• Gen 37:32-33 : 32 and they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found: know now whether it is thy son's coat or not. 33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.
• Gen 42:36 : 36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
• Judg 16:30 : 30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead that he slew at his death were more than they that he slew in his life.
• 2 Sam 18:33 : 33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
• 1 Kgs 20:30 : 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
• Jer 4:11-12 : 11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse; 12 a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them.
• Matt 7:27 : 27 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.
• Luke 13:1-5 : 1 Now there were some present at that very season who told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered and said unto them, Think ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they have suffered these things? 3 I tell you, Nay: but, except {G3361} ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish. 4 Or those eighteen, {G2532} {G3638} upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, think ye that they were offenders above all the men that dwell in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except {G3361} ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
• Acts 28:4 : 4 And when the barbarians saw the [venomous] creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live.
• Eph 2:2 : 2 wherein {G1722} ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;