Job 9:26

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Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.	They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.	If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

They are passed away^H2498 as^H5973 the swift^H16 ships^H591: as the eagle^H5404 that hasteth^H2907 to the prey^H400.

Original Hebrew

חָלְפוּ עִם־אֳנִיֹּות אֵבֶה כְּנֶשֶׁר יָטוּשׂ עֲלֵי־אֹכֶל׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
חָ֭לְפוּ	Chal.fu	H2498	HVqp3cp	they have passed on
עִם	'im-	H5973	HR	with
אֳנִיּ֣וֹת	'o.ni.Yot	H591	HNcfpa	ships of
אֵבֶ֑ה	'e.Veh	H16	HNcmsa	reed
כְּ֝/נֶ֗שֶׁר	ke./Ne.sher	H5404	HR/Ncmsa	like/ an eagle
יָט֥וּשׂ	ya.Tus	H2907	HVqi3ms	(which) it rushes
עֲלֵי	'a.lei-	H5921	HR	on
אֹֽכֶל	'O.khel	H400	HNcmsa	food

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

Strong's References

H16 — אֵבֶה (ʼêbeh, ay-beh'): from אָבָה (in the sense of bending toward); the papyrus; swift.
H400 — אֹכֶל (ʼôkel, o'-kel): from אָכַל; food; eating, food, meal(-time), meat, prey, victuals.
H591 — אֳנִיָּה (ʼŏnîyâh, on-ee-yaw'): feminine of אֳנִי; a ship; ship(-men).
H2498 — חָלַף (châlaph, khaw-laf'): a primitive root; properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change; abolish, alter, change, cut off, go on forward, grow up, be over, pass (away, on, through), renew, sprout, strike through.
H2907 — טוּשׂ (ṭûws, toos): a primitive root; to pounce as a bird of prey; haste.
H5404 — נֶשֶׁר (nesher, neh'-sher): from an unused root meaning to lacerate; the eagle (or other large bird of prey); eagle.
H5973 — עִם (ʻim, eem): from עָמַם; adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English); accompanying, against, and, as ([idiom] long as), before, beside, by (reason of), for all, from (among, between), in, like, more than, of, (un-) to, with(-al).

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.

Cross References

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

as the eagle — 2 Samuel 1:23, Job 39:27-30, Proverbs 23:5, Jeremiah 4:13, Lamentations 4:19, Habakkuk 1:8

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