What Does Job 2:7 Mean in the King James?
So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse frames Job’s whole-body sores as the mark of a blow from the Adversary, not an abstract condition.
THE MEANING
The verse puts bodily suffering in full view: the affliction reaches from the sole to the crown. It names an adversary as the agent and describes the action as a strike, while keeping the LORD’s presence in the scene. The pain is neither hidden nor explained away.
THE ROOT
וַיַּךְ
vayyak
GROWS FROM
נכה
n-k-h
to strike, smite
“smote” in this verse is vayyak. The strike verb shares its root with words for a blow and for someone stricken. That root makes the sores the bodily form of an inflicted blow, while the span from sole to crown shows its reach across Job’s whole body.
ALSO GROWS
makkāh: blow, wound, plague
מַכָּה
This noun names the blow or plague that the verb enacts against Job.
mukké: stricken, smitten
מֻכֶּה
This form describes the state of one who has received the strike, linking the act to its bodily result.
THE PATTERN
Scripture uses the body’s endpoints to show affliction reaching the whole person.
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.THE THREAD
The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.Deuteronomy repeats the Hebrew strike root נכה (n-k-h, “strike”) and the boil phrase, then gives the same sole-to-head span. The close echo links Job’s bodily affliction to another passage that names the violence plainly.
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