Job 1:14
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There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them,

messenger.

1 Samuel 4:17 And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter of the people: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead: and the ark of God is taken.

2 Samuel 15:13 And there came a messenger to David, saying: All Israel with their whole heart followeth Absalom.

Jeremiah 51:31 One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one end to the other:

Context
Job Loses His Children and Possessions
13Now upon a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother, 14There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them,15And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.…
Cross References
Job 1:13
Now upon a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother,

Job 1:15
And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Lexicon
a messenger
וּמַלְאָ֛ךְ (ū·mal·’āḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4397: A messenger, of God, an angel

came
בָּ֥א (bā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

and reported
וַיֹּאמַ֑ר (way·yō·mar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

Job:
אִיּ֖וֹב (’î·yō·wḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 347: Job -- a patriarch

“While the oxen
הַבָּקָר֙ (hab·bā·qār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1241: Beef cattle, ox, a herd

were
הָי֣וּ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

plowing
חֹֽרְשׁ֔וֹת (ḥō·rə·šō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise

and the donkeys
וְהָאֲתֹנ֖וֹת (wə·hā·’ă·ṯō·nō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 860: A female donkey

grazing
רֹע֥וֹת (rō·‘ō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with

nearby,
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against


Additional Translations
a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;

And, behold, there came a messenger to Job, and said to him, The yokes of oxen were ploughing, and the she-asses were feeding near them;

And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them;

that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, 'The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides,
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