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Jobאִיּוֹבgot upוַיָּקָםand toreוַיִּקְרַעhis robeאֶת מְעִלוֹand shavedוַיָּגָזhis headאֶת רֹאשׁוֹand fellוַיִּפֹּלto the groundאַרְצָהand bowed down.וַיִּשְׁתָּחוּ
Job 1:20
Study it in the app“Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell to the ground and bowed down.”
Job tears his robe, falls to the ground, and blesses the name of YHWHSuffering and Trials
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 1:20, word by word
- Jobאִיּוֹבiyov
Job
Job: the man of the land of Uz, blameless and upright, whose story of suffering and of questions to God is told in the book that bears his name. Ezekiel 14:14 and James 5:11 also mention him.
Where else “iyov” appears- got upיָּקָםyakam
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “yakam” appears- and toreיִּקְרַעyikra
tear
To rip one's clothes in great grief.
Where else “yikra” appears- his robeמְעִלmeil
robe
Robe: a long garment without sleeves worn over the tunic.
Where else “meil” appears- and shavedיָּגָזyagaz
shave
To cut one's hair; or be destroyed.
Where else “yagaz” appears- his headרֹאשׁrosh
head
The upper part of the body, where the face and hair are.
Where else “rosh” appears- and fellיִּפֹּלyipol
fall prostrate
To fall facedown, or embrace someone.
Where else “yipol” appears- to the groundאַרְצָartsa
ground
What is underfoot: bowing down to touch it.
Where else “artsa” appears- and bowed downיִּשְׁתָּחוּyishtachu
worship
To bow before God in adoration.
Where else “yishtachu” appears
The context
19and look, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died, and I escaped, only I, I alone, to tell you.”
20 · This verse (above)
21He said, “Naked I came out of the belly of my mother, and naked I will return there. YHWH gave, and YHWH took; may the name of YHWH be blessed.”