Job 1:17
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.”
חֶרֶב
A sword, a cutting weapon. Chereb. Reckless words wound like a sword. Wise words bring healing. The tongue is more powerful than any physical weapon.
שׂוּם
they formed
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שׂוּם
To put, to set, to place. Shuwm. I have set the LORD always before me. A deliberate daily choice to keep God at the centre of everything.
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כַּשְׂדִּי
the Chaldeans
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כַּשְׂדִּי
a Kasdite, or descendant of Kesed; by implication, a Chaldaean (as if so descended); also an astrologer (as if proverbial of that people
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עוֹד
still
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עוֹד
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
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דָבַר
was speaking
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דָבַר
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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רֹאשׁ
companies
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רֹאשׁ
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
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רַק
only
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רַק
properly, leanness, i.e. (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
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נָכָה
they struck
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נָכָה
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
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שָׁלוֹשׁ
three
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שָׁלוֹשׁ
three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multiple) thrice
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זֶה
this one
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זֶה
the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that
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