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whenכִּיthey crouchיָשֹׁחוּin their dwellingsבַמְּעוֹנוֹתand lieיֵשְׁבוּin the thicketבַסֻּכָּהin ambush?לְמוֹ אָרֶב
Job 38:40
Study it in the app“when they crouch in their dwellings and lie in the thicket in ambush?”
God asks Job who prepares the lioness's prey and the raven's foodProvidence
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 38:40, word by word
- they crouchיָשֹׁחוּyashochu
bow down
To bend the body down, whether in grief, in submission or to lie in wait.
Where else “yashochu” appears- in their dwellingsמְּעוֹנוֹתmeonot
den
The lair of a wild beast, where it lies down or rears its young.
Where else “meonot” appears- and lieיֵשְׁבוּyeshvu
stay
To remain in a place.
Where else “yeshvu” appears- in the thicketסֻּכָּהsuka
thicket
The lion's den.
Where else “suka” appears- in ambushלְמוֹlemo
to, for
A poetic form of the preposition "to," "for."
Where else “lemo” appears- in ambushאָרֶבarev
ambush
Lying hidden, waiting for prey.
Where else “arev” appears
The context
39Can you hunt prey for the lioness, or the appetite of the young lions fill,
40 · This verse (above)
41Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young cry for help to El and wander without food?