Job 2:8

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So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.	And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.	Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And he took^H3947 him a potsherd^H2789 to scrape^H1623 himself withal; and he sat down^H3427 among^H8432 the ashes^H665.

Original Hebrew

וַיִּקַּח־לֹו חֶרֶשׂ לְהִתְגָּרֵד בֹּו וְהוּא יֹשֵׁב בְּתֹוךְ־הָאֵפֶר׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יִּֽקַּֽח	va/i.yi.kach-	H3947	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he took
ל֣/וֹ	l/o		HR/Sp3ms	for/ himself
חֶ֔רֶשׂ	Che.res	H2789	HNcmsa	a potsherd
לְ/הִתְגָּרֵ֖ד	le./hit.ga.Red	H1623	HR/Vtc	to/ scrape himself
בּ֑/וֹ	b/o		HR/Sp3ms	with/ it
וְ/ה֖וּא	ve./Hu'	H1931	HC/Pp3ms	and/ he
יֹשֵׁ֥ב	yo.Shev	H3427	HVqrmsa	(was) sitting
בְּ/תוֹךְ	be./tokh-	H8432	HR/Ncmsc	in/ (the) midst
הָ/אֵֽפֶר	ha./'E.fer	H665	HTd/Ncmsa	the/ ash(es)

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H665 — אֵפֶר (ʼêpher, ay'-fer): from an unused root meaning to bestrew; ashes; ashes.
H1623 — גָּרַד (gârad, gaw-rad'): a primitive root; to abrade; scrape.
H2789 — חֶרֶשׂ (cheres, kheh'-res): a collateral form mediating between חֶרֶס and חֶרֶשׁ; a piece of pottery; earth(-en), (pot-) sherd, [phrase] stone.
H3427 — יָשַׁב (yâshab, yaw-shab'): a primitive root; properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry; (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, [idiom] fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, [idiom] marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(-tle), (down-) sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
H3947 — לָקַח (lâqach, law-kakh'): a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications); accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, [idiom] many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
H8432 — תָּוֶךְ (tâvek, taw'-vek): from an unused root meaning to sever; a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre; among(-st), [idiom] between, half, [idiom] (there-, where-), in(-to), middle, mid(-night), midst (among), [idiom] out (of), [idiom] through, [idiom] with(-in).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H1931 — הוּא (hûwʼ, hoo): of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular; he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are; he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

he sat — 2 Samuel 13:19, Job 42:6, Isaiah 61:3, Ezekiel 27:30, Jonah 3:6, Matthew 11:21
took him — Job 19:14-17, Psalms 38:5, Psalms 38:7, Luke 16:20-21

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