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IfאִםI hope forאֲקַוֶּהSheolשְׁאוֹלas my house,בֵּיתִיin darknessבַּחֹשֶׁךְI spread outרִפַּדְתִּיmy bed;יְצוּעָי
Job 17:13
Study it in the app“If I hope for Sheol as my house, in darkness I spread out my bed;”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 17:13, word by word
- I hope forאֲקַוֶּהakave
wait
To long and look for, above all YHWH.
Where else “akave” appears- Sheolשְׁאוֹלsheol
Sheol
Sheol: in the Old Testament, the place of the dead, the grave, where all go down at death.
Where else “sheol” appears- as my houseבֵּיתִbeti
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “beti” appears- in darknessחֹשֶׁךְchoshech
gloom
Distress, ignorance or death.
Where else “choshech” appears- I spread outרִפַּדְתִּיripadti
spread out
To lay out, prepare a bed.
Where else “ripadti” appears- my bedיְצוּעָyetsua
bed
Place where one lies down; in marriage, the bed of husband and wife.
Where else “yetsua” appears
The context
12Night they turn into day: ‘Light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.
13 · This verse (above)
14to the pit I call, ‘You are my father’; ‘My mother and my sister,’ to the worms;