Job 7:15

RBT Hebrew Interlinear:

ותבחר וַתִּבְחַר

and she is choosing

977

בחר
bâchar
Definition: properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select
Root: a primitive root;
Exhaustive: None

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9001

ו
None
Definition: sequential 'and'
Root: None
Exhaustive: Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (future<->past)

conjunctive, Verb Qal sequential imperfect third person feminine singular

מחנק מַחֲנָק

a strangling

4267

מחנק
machănaq
Definition: choking
Root: from H2614 (חנק);
Exhaustive: from חנק; choking; strangling.

Noun common both singular absolute

נפשי נַפְשׁי

the breath/soul of myself

9020

י
None
Definition: my, personal posessive - noun suffix: 1st person common singular
Root: None
Exhaustive: Personal posessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 1st person singular

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5315

נפש
nephesh
Definition: properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Root: from H5314 (נפש);
Exhaustive: from נפש; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental); any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.

Noun common both singular construct, Suffix pronominal first person both singular

מות מָ֝֗וֶת

he has died/death

4194

מות
mâveth
Definition: death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
Root: from H4191 (מות);
Exhaustive: from מות; death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin; (be) dead(-ly), death, die(-d).

Noun common both singular absolute

מעצמותי מֵעַצְמוֹתָי׃

bones of myself

9016

None
Definition: verseEnd
Root: None
Exhaustive: None

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9020

י
None
Definition: my, personal posessive - noun suffix: 1st person common singular
Root: None
Exhaustive: Personal posessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 1st person singular

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6106

עצם
ʻetsem
Definition: a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
Root: from H6105 (עצם);
Exhaustive: from עצם; a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame; body, bone, [idiom] life, (self-) same, strength, [idiom] very.

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9006

מ
None
Definition: from
Root: None
Exhaustive: None

Prep-M, Noun common feminine plural construct, Suffix pronominal first person both singular

RBT Translation:

and she is choosing a strangling the breath/soul of myself he has died/death bones of myself

RBT Paraphrase:
And she is choosing a strangling noose, the soul of myself; death more than bones of myself!

Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones.

LITV Translation:
so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my bones.

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; And yet keep my bones from death.