Job 1:16
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.Job 1:16 in the real world
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- מָלַטmâlaṭproperly, to be smooth, i.e. (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causative
- בָּעַרbâʻarto kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); to be(-come) brutish
- צֹאןtsôʼna collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
- נַעַרnaʻar(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a
- אֵשׁʼêshfire (literally or figuratively)
- שָׁמַיִםshâmayimthe sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move,
- נָפַלnâphalto fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurat
- אָכַלʼâkalto eat (literally or figuratively)
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.