KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Job 31:34 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “Did I fear” | אֶֽעֱר֨וֹץ׀ | To awe or (intransitive) to dread; hence, to harass | Did fear |
| “a great” | רַבָּ֗ה | Abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality) | great |
| “multitude,” | הָ֘מ֤וֹן | A noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth | multitude |
| “or did the contempt” | וּבוּז | Disrespect | did contempt |
| “of families” | מִשְׁפָּח֥וֹת | A family, i.e., circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people | families |
| “terrify” | יְחִתֵּ֑נִי | Properly, to prostrate; hence, to break down, either (literally) by violence, or (figuratively) by confusion and fear | terrify |
| “me, that I kept silence,” | וָ֝אֶדֹּ֗ם | To be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish | kept silence |
| “and” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “went not out” | אֵ֥צֵא | To go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim | not out |
| “of the door?” | פָֽתַח׃ | An opening (literally), i.e., door (gate) or entrance way | door |
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32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
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