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Job 41:1

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He taketh it with his eyes: [his] nose pierceth through snares.	Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down?	Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Canst thou draw out^H4900 leviathan^H3882 with an hook^H2443? or his tongue^H3956 with a cord^H2256 which thou lettest down^H8257?

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Original Hebrew

הֵן־תֹּחַלְתֹּו נִכְזָבָה הֲגַם אֶל־מַרְאָיו יֻטָל׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
הֵן	hen-	H2005	HTm	there!
תֹּחַלְתּ֥/וֹ	to.chal.T/o	H8431	HNcfsc/Sp3ms	hope/ his
נִכְזָ֑בָה	nikh.Za.vah	H3576	HVNp3fs	it is proved a lie
הֲ/גַ֖ם	ha./Gam	H1571	HTi/D	¿/ also
אֶל	'el-	H413	HR	because of
מַרְאָ֣י/ו	mar.'A/v	H4758	HNcmsc/Sp3ms	appearance/ its
יֻטָֽל	yu.Tal	H2904	HVHi3ms	everyone is thrown down

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

Strong's References

• H2256 — חֶבֶל (chebel, kheh'-bel): or חֵבֶל; from חָבַל; a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin; band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
• H2443 — חַכָּה (chakkâh, khak-kaw'): probably from חָכָה; a hook (as adhering); angle, hook.
• H3882 — לִוְיָתָן (livyâthân, liv-yaw-thawn'): from לָוָה; a wreathed animal, i.e. a serpent (especially the crocodile or some other large sea-monster); figuratively, the constellation of the dragon; also as a symbol of Babylon; leviathan, mourning.
• H3956 — לָשׁוֹן (lâshôwn, law-shone'): or לָשֹׁן; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה; from לָשַׁן; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water); [phrase] babbler, bay, [phrase] evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
• H4900 — מָשַׁךְ (mâshak, maw-shak'): a primitive root; to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.); draw (along, out), continue, defer, extend, forbear, [idiom] give, handle, make (pro-, sound) long, [idiom] sow, scatter, stretch out.
• H8257 — שָׁקַע (shâqaʻ, shaw-kah'): (abbreviated Amos 8:8); a primitive root; to subside; by implication, to be overflowed, cease; causatively, to abate, subdue; make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink.

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

• H413 — אֵל (ʼêl, ale): (but only used in the shortened constructive form אֶל ); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e.; near, with or among; often in general, to; about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, [idiom] hath, in(-to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).
• H1571 — גַּם (gam, gam): by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and; again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
• H2005 — הֵן (hên, hane): a primitive particle; lo!; also (as expressing surprise) if; behold, if, lo, though.
• H2904 — טוּל (ṭûwl, tool): a primitive root; to pitch over or reel; hence (transitively) to cast down or out; carry away, (utterly) cast (down, forth, out), send out.
• H3576 — כָּזַב (kâzab, kaw-zab'): a primitive root; to lie (i.e. deceive), literally or figuratively; fail, (be found a, make a) liar, lie, lying, be in vain.
• H4758 — מַרְאֶה (marʼeh, mar-eh'): from רָאָה; a view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness; often plural the looks), or (mental) a vision; [idiom] apparently, appearance(-reth), [idiom] as soon as beautiful(-ly), countenance, fair, favoured, form, goodly, to look (up) on (to), look(-eth), pattern, to see, seem, sight, visage, vision.
• H8431 — תּוֹחֶלֶת (tôwcheleth, to-kheh'-leth): from יָחַל; expectation; hope.

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