Word Study · Strong's H347 · Hebrew
אִיּוֹב
iob
ee-yobe'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼÎyôwb
“Ijob, the patriarch famous for his patience”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Ijob, the patriarch famous for his patience
Rendered in the KJV as
Job.
- 58occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 19inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 58 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 19
- אִיּ֗וֹב12
- אִיּ֖וֹב6
- אִ֭יּוֹב6
- אִיּ֣וֹב5
- אִיּ֑וֹב5
- אִיּוֹב֙4
- אִיּֽוֹב׃4
- אִיּ֔וֹב3
- אִיּ֥וֹב3
- אִיּוֹב֒1
- אִיּֽוֹב׃ פ1
- בְּ֭אִיּוֹב1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 8
- Job46
- and Job4
- O Job3
- [belonged] to Job1
- [was] Job1
- like Job1
- on Job1
- to Job1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- proper noun (a name)50
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)4
- preposition + proper noun (a name)4
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpm · 50
- HC/Npm · 4
- HR/Npm · 4
All 58, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Job56 occurrences
- Job 1:1אִיּ֣וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.here: [was] Job
- Job 1:5אִיּ֣וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.here: Job
- Job 1:5אִיּ֔וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.here: Job
- Job 1:5אִיּ֖וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.here: Job
- Job 1:8אִיּ֑וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”here: Job
- Job 1:9אִיּ֖וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?here: Job
- Job 1:14אִיּ֖וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,here: Job
- Job 1:20אִיּוֹב֙ʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,here: Job
- Job 1:22אִיּ֑וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.here: Job
- Job 2:3אִיּוֹב֒ʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”here: Job
- Job 2:7אִיּוֹב֙ʾiyovproper noun (a name)So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.here: Job
- Job 2:10אִיּ֖וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.here: Job
- Job 2:11אִיּ֗וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.here: Job
- Job 3:1אִיּוֹב֙ʾiyovproper noun (a name)After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.here: Job
- Job 3:2אִיּ֗וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)And this is what he said:here: Job
- Job 6:1אִיּ֗וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then Job replied:here: Job
- Job 9:1אִיּ֗וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then Job answered:here: Job
- Job 12:1אִיּ֗וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then Job answered:here: Job
- Job 16:1אִיּ֗וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then Job answered:here: Job
- Job 19:1אִיּ֗וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then Job answered:here: Job
- Job 21:1אִיּ֗וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then Job answered:here: Job
- Job 23:1אִיּ֗וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then Job answered:here: Job
- Job 26:1אִיּ֗וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then Job answered:here: Job
- Job 27:1אִ֭יּוֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Job continued his discourse:here: Job
- Job 29:1אִ֭יּוֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)And Job continued his discourse:here: Job
- Job 31:40אִיּֽוֹב׃ פʾiyovproper noun (a name)then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.here: Job
- Job 32:1אִיּ֑וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.here: Job
- Job 32:2בְּ֭אִיּוֹבbeiyovpreposition + proper noun (a name)This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,here: on Job
- Job 32:3אִיּֽוֹב׃ʾiyovproper noun (a name)and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.here: Job
- Job 32:4אִ֭יּוֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he.here: Job
- Job 32:12לְאִיּ֣וֹבleiyovpreposition + proper noun (a name)I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.here: to Job
- Job 33:1אִיּ֣וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.here: O Job
- Job 33:31אִיּ֥וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.here: O Job
- Job 34:5אִיּ֣וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.here: Job
- Job 34:7כְּאִיּ֑וֹבkeiyovpreposition + proper noun (a name)What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?here: like Job
- Job 34:35אִ֭יּוֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’here: Job
- Job 34:36אִיּ֣וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.here: Job
- Job 35:16וְ֭אִיּוֹבveiyovconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”here: and Job
- Job 37:14אִיּ֑וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.here: O Job
- Job 38:1אִ֭יּוֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:here: Job
- Job 40:1אִיּ֗וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)And the LORD said to Job:here: Job
- Job 40:3אִיּ֥וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then Job answered the LORD:here: Job
- Job 40:6אִ֭יּוֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:here: Job
- Job 42:1אִיּ֥וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)Then Job replied to the LORD:here: Job
- Job 42:7אִיּ֑וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.here: Job
- Job 42:7אִיּֽוֹב׃ʾiyovproper noun (a name)After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.here: Job
- Job 42:8אִיּ֗וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”here: Job
- Job 42:8וְאִיּ֣וֹבveiyovconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”here: and Job
- Job 42:8אִיּֽוֹב׃ʾiyovproper noun (a name)So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”here: Job
- Job 42:9אִיּֽוֹב׃ʾiyovproper noun (a name)So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s request.here: Job
- Job 42:10אִיּ֔וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.here: Job
- Job 42:10לְאִיּ֖וֹבleiyovpreposition + proper noun (a name)After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.here: [belonged] to Job
- Job 42:12אִיּ֖וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.here: Job
- Job 42:15אִיּ֖וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.here: Job
- Job 42:16אִיּוֹב֙ʾiyovproper noun (a name)After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.here: Job
- Job 42:17אִיּ֔וֹבʾiyovproper noun (a name)And so Job died, old and full of years.here: Job
Ezekiel2 occurrences
- Ezekiel 14:14וְאִיּ֑וֹבveiyovconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.here: and Job
- Ezekiel 14:20וְאִיּוֹב֮veiyovconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.here: and Job