📜 INTERLINEAR BIBLE STUDY

Job 12:23
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 מַשְׂגִּ֣יא שָׂגָא H7679 HVhrmsa שָׂגָא : a primitive root; to grow, i.e. (causatively) to enlarge, (figuratively) laud: increase, magnify.
2 לַ֭/גּוֹיִם גּוֹי H1471 HRd/Ncmpa גּוֹי rarely (shortened) goy; apparently from the same root as גֵּוָה (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
3 וַֽ/יְאַבְּדֵ֑/ם אָבַד H6 HC/Vpw3ms/Sp3mp אָבַד a primitive root; properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy): break, destroy(- uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
4 שֹׁטֵ֥חַ שָׁטַח H7849 HVqrmsa שָׁטַח a primitive root; to expand: all abroad, enlarge, spread, stretch out.
5 לַ֝/גּוֹיִ֗ם גּוֹי H1471 HRd/Ncmpa גּוֹי rarely (shortened) goy; apparently from the same root as גֵּוָה (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
6 וַ/יַּנְחֵֽ/ם נָחָה H5148 HC/Vhw3ms/Sp3mp נָחָה a primitive root; to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists): bestow, bring, govern, guide, lead (forth), put, straiten.