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Belowמִתַּחַתhis rootsשָׁרָשָׁיוdry up,יִבָשׁוּand aboveוּמִמַּעַלhis branchesקְצִירוֹwither.יִמַּל
Job 18:16
Study it in the app“Below his roots dry up, and above his branches wither.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 18:16, word by word
- his rootsשָׁרָשָׁיsharashay
shoot
What gives rise to something; a shoot from a stock, like a descendant of Jesse.
Where else “sharashay” appears- dry upיִבָשׁוּyivashu
dry up
To lose water or moisture and become parched or withered.
Where else “yivashu” appears- and aboveמַּעַלmaal
above
Upward, above; with ages, "twenty years old or more".
Where else “maal” appears- his branchesקְצִירketsir
branch
The branches of a tree.
Where else “ketsir” appears- witherיִמַּלyimal
wither
Dry up like grass.
Where else “yimal” appears
The context
15What is not his dwells in his tent; sulfur is scattered over his abode.
16 · This verse (above)
17His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name on the face of the open country.