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beforeבְּטֶרֶםI go,אֵלֵךְand do notוְלֹאreturn,אָשׁוּבtoאֶלthe landאֶרֶץof darknessחֹשֶׁךְand shadow of death,וְצַלְמָוֶת
Job 10:21
Study it in the app“before I go, and do not return, to the land of darkness and shadow of death,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 10:21, word by word
- beforeטֶרֶםterem
not yet, before
Not yet; before.
Where else “terem” appears- I goאֵלֵךְelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “elech” appears- returnאָשׁוּבashuv
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “ashuv” appears- the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of darknessחֹשֶׁךְchoshech
gloom
Distress, ignorance or death.
Where else “choshech” appears- and shadow of deathצַלְמָוֶתtsalmavet
deep darkness
Deep darkness: the thickest gloom. The word joins "shadow" and "death"; it is used for extreme danger, for the densest darkness and for the place of the dead.
Where else “tsalmavet” appears
The context
20Are not my days few? So cease, and turn away from me, that I may brighten up a little,
21 · This verse (above)
22a land of blackness like gloom, of shadow of death and without order, and it shines forth like gloom.”