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Job 6:24

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Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?	Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.	How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Teach^H3384 me, and I will hold my tongue^H2790: and cause me to understand^H995 wherein I have erred^H7686.

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Original Hebrew

הֹורוּנִי וַאֲנִי אַחֲרִישׁ וּמַהשָּׁ־גִיתִי הָבִינוּ לִי׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
ה֭וֹרוּ/נִי	Ho.ru./ni	H3384	HVhv2mp/Sp1cs	teach/ me
וַ/אֲנִ֣י	va./'a.Ni	H589	HC/Pp1cs	and/ I
אַחֲרִ֑ישׁ	'a.cha.Rish	H2790	HVhi1cs	I will keep silent
וּ/מַה	u./ma.ho.Sha-	H4100	HC/Ti	and/ what?
שָּׁ֝גִ֗יתִי	Sha.Gi.ti	H7686	HVqp1cs	have I erred
הָבִ֥ינוּ	ha.Vi.nu	H995	HVhv2mp	explain
לִֽ/י	L/i		HR/Sp1cs	to/ me

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

Strong's References

• H995 — בִּין (bîyn, bene): a primitive root; to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand; attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).
• H2790 — חָרַשׁ (chârash, khaw-rash'): a primitive root; to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness); [idiom] altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.
• H3384 — יָרָה (yârâh, yaw-raw'): or (2 Chronicles 26:15) יָרָא; a primitive root; properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach; ([phrase]) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.
• H7686 — שָׁגָה (shâgâh, shaw-gaw'): a primitive root; to stray (causatively, mislead), usually (figuratively) to mistake, especially (morally) to transgress; by extension (through the idea of intoxication) to reel, (figuratively) be enraptured; (cause to) go astray, deceive, err, be ravished, sin through ignorance, (let, make to) wander.

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

• H589 — אֲנִי (ʼănîy, an-ee'): lemma אֲנַי second vowel, corrected to אֲנִי; contracted from אָנֹכִי; I; I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, [idiom] which, [idiom] who.
• H4100 — מָה (mâh, maw): or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses; how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.

Cross References

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

• cause me — Job 10:2, Psalms 19:12
• I will — Psalms 39:1-2, James 3:2
• Teach me — Job 5:27, Job 32:11, Job 32:15-16, Job 33:1, Job 33:31-33, Job 34:32, Psalms 32:8, Proverbs 9:9, Proverbs 25:12, James 1:19

Reciprocal references (1): Job 12:2

Related Topics

• Torrey’s: AFFLICTION, PRAYER UNDER
• Nave’s: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES

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