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The caravansאָרְחוֹתturn asideיִלָּפְתוּfrom their way;דַּרְכָּםthey go upיַעֲלוּinto the voidבַתֹּהוּand perish.וְיֹאבֵדוּ
Job 6:18
Study it in the app“The caravans turn aside from their way; they go up into the void and perish.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 6:18, word by word
- The caravansאָרְחוֹתarchot
caravan
A traveler; a caravan.
Where else “archot” appears- turn asideיִלָּפְתוּyilaftu
turn aside
To roll over; to leave one's path.
Where else “yilaftu” appears- from their wayדַּרְכָּdarka
manner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “darka” appears- they go upיַעֲלוּyaalu
go up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “yaalu” appears- into the voidתֹּהוּtohu
formlessness
Without form or order, like the earth at first, or a desolate place.
Where else “tohu” appears- and perishיֹאבֵדוּyovedu
perish
To die, be ruined.
Where else “yovedu” appears
Translation note
“The caravans”: the same Hebrew word means “paths”; it can also be understood that it is the channels that twist and are lost in the desert.
The context
17When they grow warm, they vanish; in the heat they are extinguished from their place.
18 · This verse (above)
19The caravans of Tema looked; the companies of Sheba hoped for them.