Job 30:4

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For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.	Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.	They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Who cut up^H6998 mallows^H4408 by the bushes^H7880, and juniper^H7574 roots^H8328 for their meat^H3899.

Original Hebrew

הַקֹּטְפִים מַלּוּחַ עֲלֵי־שִׂיחַ וְשֹׁרֶשׁ רְתָמִים לַחְמָם׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
הַ/קֹּטְפִ֣ים	ha./ko.te.Fim	H6998	HTd/Vqrmpa	those/ (who) pluck off
מַלּ֣וּחַ	ma.Lu.ach	H4408	HNcmsa	mallow
עֲלֵי	'a.lei-	H5921	HR	on
שִׂ֑יחַ	Si.ach	H7880	HNcmsa	bush(es)
וְ/שֹׁ֖רֶשׁ	ve./Sho.resh	H8328	HC/Ncmsc	and/ (the) root of
רְתָמִ֣ים	re.ta.Mim	H7574	HNcmpa	broom plants
לַ/חְמָֽ/ם	lach.Ma/m	H3899	HR/Vqc/Sp3mp	(for) food/ their

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

Strong's References

H3899 — לֶחֶם (lechem, lekh'-em): from לָחַם; See also בֵּית לְעַפְרָה; food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it); (shew-) bread, [idiom] eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.
H4408 — מַלּוּחַ (mallûwach, mal-loo'-akh): lemma מַלוּחַ missing dagesh, corrected to מַלּוּחַ; from מָלַח; sea-purslain (from its saltness); mallows.
H6998 — קָטַף (qâṭaph, kaw-taf'): a primitive root; to strip off; crop off, cut down (up), pluck.
H7574 — רֶתֶם (rethem, reh'-them): or רֹתֶם; from רָתַם; the Spanish broom (from its pole-like stems); juniper (tree).
H7880 — שִׂיחַ (sîyach, see'-akh): from שִׂיחַ; a shoot (as if uttered or put forth), i.e. (generally) shrubbery; bush, plant, shrub.
H8328 — שֶׁרֶשׁ (sheresh, sheh'-resh): from שָׁרַשׁ; a root (literally or figuratively); bottom, deep, heel, root.

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

H5921 — עַל (ʻal, al): properly, the same as עַל used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications; above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

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