Job 30:4
Strong's Lexicon
They plucked
הַקֹּטְפִ֣ים (haq·qō·ṭə·p̄îm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6998: 1) to pluck off or out, cut off 1a) (Qal) to pluck off 1b) (Niphal) to be plucked off

mallow
מַלּ֣וּחַ (mal·lū·aḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4408: 1) mallow 1a) a plant that grows in salt marshes

among
עֲלֵי־ (‘ă·lê-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: prep 1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against 1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards 1b) above, beyond, over (of excess) 1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence) 1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition) 1e) over (of suspension or extension) 1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity) 1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion) 1h) to (as a dative) conj 2) because that, because, notwithstanding, although

the shrubs,
שִׂ֑יחַ (śî·aḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7880: 1) bush, plant, shrub

and the roots
וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁ (wə·šō·reš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8328: 1) root 1a) root (literal) 1b) root (of people involving firmness or permanence) (fig) 1c) root, bottom (as lowest stratum) (fig)

of the broom tree
רְתָמִ֣ים (rə·ṯā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7574: 1) broom-plant, retem 1a) a kind of broom plant

were their food.
לַחְמָֽם׃ (laḥ·mām)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3899: 1) bread, food, grain 1a) bread 1a1) bread 1a2) bread-corn 1b) food (in general)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

Young's Literal Translation
Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They plucked mallow    among  the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their  food.

New American Standard Bible
Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

King James Bible
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom bush.

New Living Translation
They pluck wild greens from among the bushes and eat from the roots of broom trees.

English Standard Version
they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food.

New American Standard Bible
Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

King James Bible
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

International Standard Version
"They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for food.

NET Bible
By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.

American Standard Version
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

English Revised Version
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; and the roots of the broom are their meat.

Young's Literal Translation
Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.
















Cross References
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Job 30:3
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Job 30:5
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 30:2
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

Job 30:1
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

Job 30:6
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

Job 30:7
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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