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A correctionמוּסַרthat shames meכְּלִמָּתִיI hear,אֶשְׁמָעand a spiritוְרוּחַfrom my understandingמִבִּינָתִיanswers me.יַעֲנֵנִי
Job 20:3
Study it in the app“A correction that shames me I hear, and a spirit from my understanding answers me.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 20:3, word by word
- A correctionמוּסַרmusar
discipline, correction
Discipline: teaching that straightens, sometimes with punishment; it comes from the verb "discipline."
Where else “musar” appears- that shames meכְּלִמָּתִkelimati
disgrace, shame
Shame, dishonor suffered before others.
Where else “kelimati” appears- I hearאֶשְׁמָעeshma
hear
To hear a sound, or learn of something.
Where else “eshma” appears- and a spiritרוּחַruach
spirit
What moves a person inside: their life, their mood.
Where else “ruach” appears- from my understandingבִּינָתִbinati
understanding
Understanding: the ability to comprehend and to tell one thing from another.
Where else “binati” appears- answers meיַעֲנֵyaane
answer
To reply to what was said.
Where else “yaane” appears
The context
2“Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me answer, and because of the haste that is in me.
3 · This verse (above)
4Do you know this, that from of old, since a human being was placed on the earth,