The Meaning of Job 33:15 Explained

Job 33:15

KJV: In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

YLT: In a dream -- a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.

Darby: In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

ASV: In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;

Discover Job 33:15

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 33:15?

MEANING: What does Job 33:15 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 33:15 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 33:15?

What is the context of Job 33:15?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

What does Job 33:15 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 33:1-33 - The Interpreter

It is not wonderful that Elihu has been mistaken for the Mediator Himself, so helpfully does he interpose between Job and his Maker. He dwells especially on his own likeness to Job in his manhood, and quotes this as the reason why he could specially help him: I also am formed out of the clay. So also our High Priest is man. Elihu takes up Job's words protesting his innocence, and he insists that Job was not right in those protestations, or in the conclusions that he drew from them.

Then follows one of the grandest passages in the book. Elihu tells how God speaks in nature and through conscience, and is often disregarded; and how then he speaks by revelation, opening the ears of men to withdraw them from their purpose. He shows that God often lays a man upon a bed of pain, that He may speak to his heart. Happy is the afflicted if an interpreter stands beside him to point the path to repentance. Finally, broken and penitent, he turns back to God, and sees His face with joy, and sings before men the story of his restoration. Thus Elihu argues that affliction is often sent as discipline to read to man God's deepest truth. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 33

¹ Elihu offers himself instead of God to reason with Job
⁸ He excuses God from giving man an account of his ways, by his greatness
¹⁴ God calls man to repentance by visions, by afflictions, and by his ministry
³¹ He incites Job to attention

What do the individual words in Job 33:15 mean?

In a dream in a vision of the night when falls deep sleep upon men while slumbering on their beds

בַּחֲל֤וֹם ׀ חֶזְי֬וֹן לַ֗יְלָה בִּנְפֹ֣ל תַּ֭רְדֵּמָה עַל־ אֲנָשִׁ֑ים בִּ֝תְנוּמ֗וֹת עֲלֵ֣י מִשְׁכָּֽב

בַּחֲל֤וֹם ׀	In a dream
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: חֲלֹום Sense: dream.
חֶזְי֬וֹן	in a vision
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct Root: חִזָּיׄון Sense: vision.
לַ֗יְלָה	of the night
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: לַיִל Sense: night.
בִּנְפֹ֣ל	when falls
Parse: Preposition-b, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct Root: נָפַל Sense: to fall, lie, be cast down, fail.
תַּ֭רְדֵּמָה	deep sleep
Parse: Noun, feminine singular Root: תַּרְדֵּמָה Sense: deep sleep, trance.
עַל־	upon
Parse: Preposition Root: עַל Sense: 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.
אֲנָשִׁ֑ים	men
Parse: Noun, masculine plural Root: אִישׁ Sense: man.
בִּ֝תְנוּמ֗וֹת	while slumbering
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine plural Root: תְּנוּמָה Sense: slumber, slumberings, sleep.
מִשְׁכָּֽב	their beds
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: מִשְׁכָּב Sense: a lying down, couch, bier, act of lying.

What are the major concepts related to Job 33:15?

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