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Job 3:12
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

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# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 מַ֭דּוּעַ מַדּ֫וּעַ H4069 HTi מַדּ֫וּעַ or madduaa; from מָה and the passive participle of יָדַע; what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?: how, wherefore, why.
2 קִדְּמ֣וּ/נִי קָדַם H6923 HVpp3cp/Sp1cs קָדַם a primitive root; to project (one self), i.e. precede; hence, to anticipate, hasten, meet (usually for help): come (go, (flee)) before, + disappoint, meet, prevent.
3 בִרְכָּ֑יִם בֶּ֫רֶך H1290 HNcfda בֶּ֫רֶך from בָּרַך; a knee: knee.
4 וּ/מַה מָה H4100 HC/Ti מָה or mah; or ma; or ma; also meh; 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.
5 שָּׁ֝דַ֗יִם שַׁד H7699 HNcmda שַׁד or shod; probably from שׁוּד (in its original sense) contracted; the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging): breast, pap, teat.
6 כִּ֣י כִּי H3588 HC כִּי a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed: and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-)as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-)though, + till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.
7 אִינָֽק יָנַק H3243 HVqi1cs יָנַק a primitive root; to suck; causatively, to give milk: milch, nurse(-ing mother), (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling).