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Like a dreamכַּחֲלוֹםhe will fly away,יָעוּףand they will notוְלֹאfind him;יִמְצָאוּהוּand he will be chased awayוְיֻדַּדlike a visionכְּחֶזְיוֹןof the night.לָיְלָה
Job 20:8
Study it in the app“Like a dream he will fly away, and they will not find him; and he will be chased away like a vision of the night.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 20:8, word by word
- Like a dreamחֲלוֹםchalom
dream
Dream: what one sees while asleep. In the Bible, God sometimes speaks through dreams.
Where else “chalom” appears- he will fly awayיָעוּףyauf
fly
To move through the air with wings, like birds and seraphim.
Where else “yauf” appears- find himיִמְצָאוּyimtsau
find
To come upon what one seeks, or something not expected.
Where else “yimtsau” appears- and he will be chased awayיֻדַּדyudad
be driven away
To be thrown out and left without a place.
Where else “yudad” appears- like a visionחֶזְיוֹןchezyon
vision
A vision: what God shows or communicates, sometimes at night or in dreams.
Where else “chezyon” appears- of the nightלָיְלָהlayla
night
Night.
Where else “layla” appears
The context
7like his dung he will perish forever; those who saw him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8 · This verse (above)
9The eye that looked on him will not do so again, and his place will no longer catch sight of him.