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IfאִםI despisedאֶמְאַסthe rightמִשְׁפַּטof my male slaveעַבְדִּיor my female slaveוַאֲמָתִיin their caseבְּרִבָםwith me,עִמָּדִי
Job 31:13
Study it in the app“If I despised the right of my male slave or my female slave in their case with me,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 31:13, word by word
- I despisedאֶמְאַסemas
reject
To regard something or someone as worthless and put it away.
Where else “emas” appears- the rightמִשְׁפַּטmishpat
right
What is due someone: what the orphan should receive.
Where else “mishpat” appears- of my male slaveעַבְדִּavdi
slave
A person who belongs to a master and works for him, without freedom of his own.
Where else “avdi” appears- or my female slaveאֲמָתִamati
female slave, maidservant
Female slave, maidservant.
Where else “amati” appears- in their caseרִבָriva
plead
To argue a cause; YHWH accuses his people.
Where else “riva” appears- with meעִמָּדִimadi
with me
With me, beside me.
Where else “imadi” appears
The context
12for it would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and all my harvest it would uproot.
13 · This verse (above)
14then what would I do when El rises up? And when he calls to account, what would I answer him?