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Butאוּלָםstretch out,שְׁלַחplease,נָאyour handיָדְךָand touchוְגַעhis boneאֶל עַצְמוֹand his flesh,וְאֶל בְּשָׂרוֹand see ifאִםhe does notלֹאcurse youיְבָרֲכֶךָּto your face.”אֶל פָּנֶיךָ
Job 2:5
Study it in the app“But stretch out, please, your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and see if he does not curse you to your face.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 2:5, word by word
- Butאוּלָםulam
but, however
But, however; yet, on the contrary.
Where else “ulam” appears- stretch outשְׁלַחshelach
stretch out
Literally "send the hand": move the arm toward something to take or strike it.
Where else “shelach” appears- your handיָדְyad
hand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yad” appears- and touchגַעga
touch
To lay a hand or finger on something, sometimes to take it or harm it.
Where else “ga” appears- his boneעַצְמatsm
bone
Each hard piece of the skeleton; also the body itself, of the dead or the living.
Where else “atsm” appears- and his fleshבְּשָׂרbesar
flesh
The body of a person or animal, the soft part covering the bones.
Where else “besar” appears- curse youיְבָרֲכֶyevarache
curse
Said as its opposite, wishing someone harm.
Where else “yevarache” appears- to your faceפָּנֶיpane
face
The front of the head, of someone or of God.
Where else “pane” appears
The context
4The Satan answered YHWH and said, “Skin for skin; and all that a man has he will give for his life.
5 · This verse (above)
6YHWH said to the Satan, “Look, he is in your hand; only guard his life.”