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so thatוַmy soulנַפְשִׁיchoosesתִּבְחַרstrangling,מַחֲנָקdeathמָוֶתrather than my bones.מֵעַצְמוֹתָי
Job 7:15
Study it in the app“so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 7:15, word by word
- my soulנַפְשִׁnafshi
life
Life, when it is at stake.
Where else “nafshi” appears- choosesתִּבְחַרtivchar
choose
To take one thing and leave the others, because it is preferred.
Where else “tivchar” appears- stranglingמַחֲנָקmachanak
strangling
Choking, suffocation; dying by strangling.
Where else “machanak” appears- deathמָוֶתmavet
death
The end of life: when someone stops breathing and returns to dust.
Where else “mavet” appears- rather than my bonesעַצְמוֹתָatsmota
bone
Each hard piece of the skeleton; also the body itself, of the dead or the living.
Where else “atsmota” appears
Translation note
“Rather than my bones”: it can be understood “rather than this body, reduced to bones.”
The context
14then you scare me with dreams and with visions you terrify me,
15 · This verse (above)
16I despise my life; I will not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are a vapor.